LINB09H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Retroflex Consonant, Formant, Sonorant
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Vowel round: correlated with a lower f2 because the oral cavity gains length with lip protrusion. Note: careful with [ ]; the f1 and f2 will appear fused together because f1 is at its highest point, while f2 is at its lowest point. Intonation: use of pitch at a phrasal level. Intonational differences can be used for pragmatics and higher level syntax; ex. indicating focus, distinguishing statements vs commands, conveying emotional states and connotations, emphasis, contrast. Question contours rise at the end (last word/syllable). Segments of syllables are organized into these decisions, based on sonority and phonotactics (rules governing syllable shape). See table 14. 1 in textbook (no need to memorize). Low vowels are the most sonorous (vocal at its most unrestricted and open). Voiced sounds are more sonorous compared to voiceless sounds. Obstruents are less sonorous than liquids and glides. Recall that the sonority principle fails in the case of [s] in consonant clusters.
