LINA01H3 Lecture 2: LINA01 Lecture 2
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Lecture 2 phonetics: the sounds of language (part 1) Facts: humans can communicate by using a wide range of modalities (gestures, sign languages, writing, etc. Articulatory phonetics: physiological mechanisms of speech production (what organs are involved, where specifically sounds are produced) we will focus on this approach. Acoustic phonetics: measuring and analyzing the physical properties of the sound waves produced in speech. Phonetic transcription: efforts have been made to devise a universal system for transcribing the sounds of speech, the most well-known is the international phonetic alphabet (ipa, evolving from 1888) Its purpose is to represent each sound of human speech w/ a single symbol (one-to-one correspondence) It does not represent the spelling system of a particular language. A system of phonetic notation giving a standardized representation of speech sounds. The ipa: what"s the purpose of the ipa, to represent each sound of human speech w/ a single symbol (one-to-one correspondence)
