LIN100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fricative Consonant, Soft Palate, Sonorant
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The major area we focus on in this course is called articulatory phonetics: the study of how speech sounds are produced by speech organs. Most speech sounds are produced from air from the lungs passing through our vocal tract, and the positions of the organs in our vocal tract determine the the sound that this air produces. Begins with the larynx, which contains the vocal folds (aka the vocal cords), which are a pair of muscular flaps that can be opened or closed. , allowing air from the lungs to either flow freely, or blocking it off. The space between the vocal folds is the glottis. (this is where glottal stop comes from) If vocal folds are help partially open, they vibrate as air passes through them. Continuous speech stream can be broken into discrete segments (sounds) which are called phones. Phonetic transcriptions are written in square brackets,ex [f].
