LINGUIST 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Articulatory Phonetics, Vocal Folds, Sound

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 201
• Professor: troymessick

Document Summary

Unambiguous representation of sounds one-to-one correspondence between sound and symbol. The same sign is used for the same sound across all languages. You will no doubt notice that many signs are familiar from the english language. When talking about ipa, signs are put in [ ]. The characteristics of the sound produced by the articulatory system. Stops: refer to sounds made by complete blockage of oral tract. Fricatives: refer to sounds made by narrowing of oral tract, characterized by hissing . Affricates: sounds that combine a stop followed by a fricative. Approximates: sounds that create a less radical narrowing of the oral tract than fricatives. When nasal cavity is closed, an oral stop arises. Ipa allows us to have a one to one correspondence between sounds and symbols. Articulatory phonetics is concerned with the physiology of how speech sounds are created.