LIN228H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Spectrogram, Fundamental Frequency, Lexical Item
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Syllables are linguistic units found in all languages. Syllables are linguistically real in that many phonological rules must make reference to the syllable and speakers can recognize and count syllables easily. Phonologists have proposed that syllables can be defined as peaks in sonority. A sonority hierarchy has been proposed in which segments are assigned a sonority value. Sound narrowing of channel increasing constriction decreasing acoustic energy low vowels mid vowels high vowels glides. , l nasals s voiced fricatives voiceless fricatives (not [s]) voiced stops voiceless stops. 0. 5 low v mid v high v glide. The waveform for the word has a shape similar to that of the sonority curves. Recall that greater amplitude is perceived as greater loudness and that sonority relates to loudness. Provide a sonority curve for the word and splendor. low v mid v high v glide. , l nasal s vd. fric. vls. fric. vd. stop vls. stop. [ s p l n d .
