LIN101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Epenthesis, Dissimilation, Joule
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Chapter 2 - phonetics (ii): vowels. 3 properties we use to describe consonants:place, manor, voicing. List the stops in english: [b] [d] [g] [p] [t] [k] List the alveolar: (page 33) Nasal stops: [m] [n] [ ] When oral/nasal is not specified, we mean oral. The ipa symbols:please do not mix them up with letters of the alphabet. Voiced labial stop = [b] [t] : the actual sound we produce (phonetic) /t/ : the abstract representation of that sound (phonemic) next week"s topic. A little more on speech sounds. Set of all known speech sounds ( 800) Inventory of speech sounds of a particular language. English speakers use about 24 distinct consonants to form words. Languages can vary widely in the number and type of consonants they use. Rotokas (a papuan language, approx. 4300 speakers) has 6 consonants. !kung (spoken in nambia and angola, approx. 4000 speakers) has 96 consonants.
