HESP 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Handshape, Language Change, Mnemonic
31 Jan 2018
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The study of phones (the minimal units that make up a language) Spoken languages: the study of speech sounds. Signed languages: the study of the discrete components that make up the language, such as handshape, movement, location, etc. Acoustic: the physical properties of sound waves produced by articulation. Auditory: how sounds are perceived through the ear. Gh is pronounced [f] as in tough. O is pronounced [ ] as in women. Ti is pronounced [ ] as in nation. English spelling isn"t very good for other languages. Many languages have sounds that english doesn"t have. English spelling is an artifact of about 500 years of language change. Try to stop thinking about how a word is spelled. B-o-x: 4 (x is broken up into two sounds) A system that represents all the speech sounds in the world"s languages. A system that has one symbol for every sound. A system that is easy to learn, based on systems already known.
