LIN100Y1 Lecture Notes - Morpheme, Tenuis Consonant
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There are more than five vowels in english. British english (bbc): 20: airstream mechanisms, direction of the airflow. Most of the sounds of human languages are produced by pushing air out of the lungs through the vocal tract. If the sound is produced by breathing in, the sound is produced by sucking air into the mouth. Velaric > tongue: place of articulation. Glottal: hair, hot: manner of articulation, oral vs. nasal. Specifies whether the airflow is released by the nose or the mouth. Nasal man not king: degree of stricture. Specifies to what degree is the constriction between the articulators. The airflow is blocked at the point where the articulators make contact. p21. The air passing through the articulators produces a turbulence and a hissing noise (friction). p22. Sonorants: activity of the vocal folds / voiced and voiceless sounds. If the vocal folds are close together the airstream causes them to vibrate producing voiced sounds.
