Linguistics 1028A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Syllable, Articulatory Phonetics, English Orthography

• School: Western University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: Linguistics 1028A/B
• Professor: Stephanie Kelly

Document Summary

Discipline that examines the following: the structure (properties) of sound largely based on the articulation of sound. Articulatory phonetics: physiological mechanism of speech production. Acoustic phonetics: study of physical properties of sounds as measured by machines. Correspondence between sounds an symbols in english highly problematic: e. g. to, two, too enough, through, though on, one, son, alone. Spelling system corresponds to pronunciation of hundreds of years ago. No one speaker produces speech in an identical fashion. Your mouth, nasal passages and the structure of the larynx (voice box) are unique to you. Determines the mixture of frequencies that make up you somewhat unique voice. Major classes of sounds: consonants voice, place, manner, vowels no obstruction of air, tense/lax, rounding, glides. Potential to be syllabic: sounds that can function as peak (nucleus) of syllable, less vocal obstruction, + acoustically stronger, aka: it will be voiced.