A S L 3 Lecture 14: wqoih17

• School: LACC
• Department: American Sign Language
• Course: A S L 3
• Professor: Tikfuc

Document Summary

Criteria for classifying consonants: place of articulation: dental, manner of articulation: fricative, voiced or unvoiced: voiced. /p/ (pin); /b/ (bin); /m/ (mouth); /w/ (why) /s/ (sue); /z/ (zoo); /t/ (toy); /d/ (dark); /n/ (no); /l/ (love) Palato-alveolar: between alveolar ridge & palate + tongue: / / (ship); / / (pleasure), /t / (chip), /d / (joy) Glottal: glottis (gap between vocal folds inside larynx): Stops/plosives: complete obstruction of airstream, followed by sudden release: Fricatives: hissing sound, airstream pressed through narrow gap: Affricates: complete obstruction, then pressed through narrow gap: Nasals: aistream escapes trhough nose, obrstuction in vocal cavity: Approximants: liquids & semi-vowels: virtually no obstruction of airstream: Parameters for description: tongue height/ openness of the jaw tongue backness lip rounding length (also: tense vs. lax) Vowel chart -> handout: front=short, back= longer (be) Diphthongs (change quality in its course of production): closing diphthongs: bay, bye, boy, now, know centering diphthongs: know, now Investigating function of speech sounds in language system.