LINA01H3 Lecture 3: Lecture Three Notes
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The only things that can be nasal or oral are stops. Produced with no major obstruction in the vocal tract so that air can flow relatively freely through the mouth. Whether the vowel quality stays stable throughout the vowel or not: monophtongs (simple vowels) vowels produced with one stable vowel quality. vowels produced with a change in vowel quality. consist of a vowel and a glide ([j] or [w]) Height of the tongue body: high: heed, hit, who"d, hood, mid: head, hayed, hud, arrest, low: had, hot, hide, how. Backness of the highest point of the tongue body: front: heed, hid, hay, head, central: hud, arrest, hi, back: hood , who"d, hoe, boy. Tense vowels are produced with more extreme articulation than their lax counterparts. Tense vowels can occur word-finally in english but lax vowels cannot (except for schwa) *lax vowels cant end a word in english.