LIN 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Handshape, Spoken Language, Phonetics
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Phonetics doesn"t study sounds; it studies meaningless units of language that combine to form meaningful units. Physical properties of the signal; gradient, variable. Phonology = how we perceive the sounds and categorize them in our psychology. Consonants: place, manner, and voicing of articulation. Vowels: height (ee is higher than ah), frontness (ee is more front than oo), rounding. Manual articulatory parameters of signs (in brentari"s prosodic model) Obligatory non-manual components in some signs (mouth gestures) The only difference is in the place of articulation. They have the same place of articulation. Hierarchical organization of features in sign, but not in speech. Timing slots are projected by some features in sign, but in speech, timing slots project features differently. Spoken words are split into syllables, organized around a nucleus (the most sonorant segment, usually, but not always a vowel) Yes, and the movement is the nucleus. Words in sl tend to be monosyllabic, but can easily be.