SPA 3112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Klst, Novella, Vocal Tract
23 Jan 2017
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Consonant sounds you know how to transcribe: b d f g h k l m n p r s t v w z. Consonants with no direct transcription: c x q. A phoneme produced without appreciable restriction or blockage of air flow in the vocal tract: classification: three dimensions, tongue position, height. Front central back: tension, tense, lax, lip rounding, rounded, retracted. Definition: syllable is composed of: one or more vowels or a consonant and vowel (cv) Can a consonant alone be a syllable: no not in english. There are certain combinations of sounds that do not occur in english. Bst at the beginning of a word. There are two levels of stress that we are interested in: primary (stressed syllable) will be louder, longer, and have higher pitch, secondary (unstressed syllable) Notation for identifying the stressed syllable: raised mark at the onset of the stressed syllable: con|tain, re|mark.
