01:615:315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lateral Consonant, Nasal Consonant, Oral Consonant
13 Sep 2016
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*the sakai site will be up as soon as professor delacy publishes it* When air is expelled from the lungs, there are many organs that it comes into contact with before being expelled from the lips. Back wall of the pharynx tense/lax vowels. Practical demonstration: if you smoke, and smoke comes out of your nose, the velum is lowered and the space is closed. Speech sounds, especially consonants, are named after the articulators that obstruct the airflow when they are produced. Usually static/passive articulators are on the upper surface of the vocal tract and active articulators are on the lower surface. You can name sounds with place of articulation in that you can note the distance between the upper and lower surface articulators. Sounds produced by air through close articulators are called fricatives. Sounds produced from completely stopping air are stops or plosives. Stops are called such when they are oral not nasal.
