LING 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sound, Minimal Pair, Formant
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The language faculty is a way of referring to all of the cognitive abilities that give rise to language in humans. But more specifically it is the set of abilities that allow us to convert from physical signals like sound (or visual signs) to thoughts. Phoneme: the smallest segment of speech that leads to a meaningful difference between words. If the change leads to a change in the meaning of the word, then the original sound and the new sound are distinct phonemes. Two words that differ in exactly one speech sound make a minimal pair. The international phonetic alphabet (ipa) was created so that we can easily write phonemes. Creates a one-to-one relationship between symbols and phonemes. The alphabet and english writing system don"t obey this principle. Ghoti - dorky linguistics joke to say fish. A sound wave is a disturbance in air pressure. Sound waves are longitudinal waves- oscillation moves in the same direction as the.
