Anthropology 1027A/B Lecture 2: Lecture 2- Phonetics
2 Apr 2018
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Vowels: vowel height, high (i), mid(e), low(a, tongue advancement, front, back, central. Lip rounding: unrounded, rounded, velum height lowered is nasal, raised is oral, tongue tension, tense, lax, the tension of the tongue, distinctions, vowel length, monophtongs vs. diphthongs, monophtongs one vowel (hat, diphthongs two vowels functioning as on (how) Accents: canadian raising is a canadian accent raising vowels height, voiceless stops with on consent before (p,t,k, two r"s. Liquid l and r, m and n: retroflex: curling the tongue tip back into the mouth ride, red, car, flap: tongue tip strikes the alveolar ridge as it passes, butter, bitter. Transcription: use [] for phonetic transcription, no space between words, only one set of brackets for an utterance not word symbols must be exact two a"s (a a) Suprasegemtal: on top of a segment length intonation, stress tone not in english.
