PSY384H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Vocal Tract, Vocal Folds, Sonorant
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Gestures: movements of the vocal tract achieving a linguistically important goal, shared across all human languages determined by structural and functional anatomy of human vocal tract. Features: phonetic properties of word gestures, ex. Beginning of word bad feature of being bilabial: can characterize [+voice] or fail to characterize [- voice] a particular sound. Brass shoes, this show, tin bits, right berries. Language patterns that demonstrate the syllable: reduplication, repetition of a whole word, english language- don"t to put emphasis on a word. Structure of a syllable: nucleus- refers to the vowel (no vowel- most open vocal tract, onset- constraints before the vowel and nucleus, coda- consonant after the vowel, rime- consonant and vowel together (coda + nucleus) Pig latin (language game: moe the first syllable onset in the word to the end of the word and add ay . The stress foot: feet- groupings of syllables defined by the stress pattern of a word, ex.
