LING 1010 Lecture 5: 9/8: Articulatory Features

• School: UConn
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 1010
• Professor: Akihiko Arano( T A)

Document Summary

Articulatory features - property of a phoneme that is related to the way it is produced. Phonemes are represented as a combination of articulatory features, they are produced in a specific ways. We can"t make the p" sound without making our lips touch. We can"t make the t" sound while making our lips touch. It is expected that our mind represents phonemes in terms of articulatory features and that visual information is relevant to speech perception because involving lip touching is visual information. Place of articulation - bilabial, labiodental, interdental, alveolar, palatal, velar, glottal. Stops (plosives) - the airflow is completely obstructed (b p t d g k) Fricatives - airflow is disturbed, but not completely stopped (f v th sh) Affricates - a stop + fricative (ch j) Nasal - the airflow is diverted to the nasal cavity (n m) Laterals - the tongue blocks the air, but air escaped around the sides (l)