Anthropology 1027A/B Lecture Notes - Affricate Consonant, Baic Group, Vocal Tract

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 1027A/B
• Professor: Claire Marin

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Anthropology 1027a claire marin lecture 002. Phonetics is the study of the characteristics of human speech sounds to provide methods for their description, classification, and transcription. Articulatory phonetics the physiology of speech production. Acoustics phonetics the physical characteristics of the sound wave produced by speaking. Auditory phonetics the perception of speech sounds as mediated by the ear, the auditory nerve and the brain. Like any technical field of study, a special vocabulary is a necessary tool ipa. Careful, we are now dealing with sounds or phones not letters or spelling. Is the set of conventions for representing speech sounds. One to one correspondence between symbol and sound. Relation between symbol and speech sound is arbitrary phonetic symbols must be memorized. When words, phrases, and sentences are written to reflect the sound they contain, this type of writing is a phonetic transcription. Every time we"re talking about transcription we"ll put it in square brackets.