ANTHRO 2D Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Phonetics, Phoneme, Soft Palate
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Phonetics & phonology: structure: the arrangement of & relations between elements of a larger complex whole. Ii. making sounds: phonetics: the description and analysis of every possible human speech sound, phonology: the study of sounds & their distribution within particular languages & language varieties. B. 1. phonetics = all the sounds, phonology = specific sounds: phoneme: smallest unit of sound. C. 2. abstract, only exists concretely in organized combinations (like words) consonants. C. 2. c) place of articulation (c. 2. c. 1) (c. 2. c. 2) (c. 2. c. 3) (c. 2. c. 4) (c. 2. c. 5) (c. 2. c. 6) lips teeth alveolar ridge hard palate soft palate epiglottis. C. 2. e) non-pulmonic consonants allophones: variations of the same phoneme (c. 2. e. 1) aspiration: little pop of air that comes out when pronouncing a phoneme (ex: taught, pot) C. 3. d) open flow of air voiced quality quantity: how long a sound is produced: making distinctions in sounds.
