LING 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: International Phonetic Alphabet, Vocal Tract, Alveolar Ridge
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Phonetic inventory: set of sounds in the language. Sounds that you recognize and know are possible in words in english. Don"t include sounds you know aren"t possible in english. You know how to separate a continuous stream of speech into distinct words and a word into distinct sounds. We often think we put a pause in between words, but we don"t. We recognize the words because we know the language. Structures that work together to produce speech sounds. Important to the way we label and define consonants and vowels. Parts of the vocal tract: alveolar ridge, hard palate, soft palate/velum, uvula, pharynx, glottis. English spelling is full of inconsistencies in regards to sound. Symbols are enclosed in square brackets: phone = [fon] Sounds of languages fall into two classes: consonants and vowels. Consonants: produced with some closure in the vocal tract that impedes the flow of air from the lungs. Different types of sounds, not just different alphabetically.