LIN 3010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Phonetic Transcription, Syllabic Consonant, Segment (Linguistics)

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LIN 3010
• Professor: Wulff Steffi

Document Summary

Branches of phonetics: articulatory phonetics: how speech sounds are produced, acoustic phonetics: properties of speech sounds produced, auditory phonetics: how humans process speech sounds. Phonetic transcription: a good phonetic alphabet is consistent and unambiguous, each symbol represents one sound (phone), and each sound should only have one symbol, sounds that distinguish words should be represented by different symbols. If two sounds are very similar and vary only minimally depending on surrounding sounds, we should be able to represent the similarity. English spelling system is not a good phonetic alphabet: same sound is spelled using different letters. Ex: sea, see, scene: same letters stand for different sounds. Ex: sign, pleasure, resign: single sound spelled by more than one letter. Ex: lock, that: single letter represents more than one sound. Lette(cid:396)s do(cid:374)"t sta(cid:374)d fo(cid:396) a(cid:374)(cid:455) sou(cid:374)d at all. Types of speech sounds: segments: discrete units, consonants, vowels, sup(cid:396)aseg(cid:373)e(cid:374)tals: (cid:862)(cid:396)ide o(cid:374) top of(cid:863) seg(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts.