SLHS 2204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Railways Act 1921, Vocal Tract, Vocal Folds
10 Apr 2018
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Chapter 3 discovery of spoken language jusczyk. So far what we have learned about speech. Books on tape 150-160 words per minute. Auctioneers use up to 300 words per minute! Infinite number of sounds can be produced with vocal tract. On average, languages only use between 20-60 speech sounds. Kabardian (language of the caucasus) 3 vowels. Learning speech as sounds of our native language by which two words can differ. Phone = a phone is a "unit sound" of a language in the sense that it is the minimal sound. Phonetic sound = the acoustic properties of an particular speech sounds. Phonemic sound = the way a specific language groups the acoustic properties in the. No one-to-one relation between letters and sounds. Phonemes are a conceptual family of sounds. Narrow transcription by the international phonetic alphabet (ipa) Phoneme is a representation phone is a description of its parts (no matter what it represents) A phone is an individual speech sound.
