01:615:201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Affricate Consonant, Tenseness, Obstruent
4 Apr 2016
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Inventory and structure of the sounds of speech. Studies the phones of human speech (or signs, in the case of sign language), their production and perception. Phones: (greek ph n : sound, voice) speech sounds; there is a finite amount of phones in the world"s languages (~600 consonants, ~200 vowels) Measures/analyses the physical properties of sound waves we produce when we speak. Unified way of expressing all human speech sounds. Each individual phone corresponds to a distinct sound which is then, in turn, represented by a unique symbol. Not dependent on a single language"s orthography (spelling) Notation: ipa form of words are enclosed in brackets. Segments: individual phones or syllables (they are dependent on the language) Segments are produced by coordinating a number of individual articulatory gestures. Features are subunits such as jaw movement, etc. Segments are individual units of linguistic structure and can be represented as such in a system of transcription.
