CMD 273 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: International Phonetic Alphabet, Speech Recognition, Phenome

• School: URI
• Department: Communicative Disorders
• Course: CMD 273
• Professor: Mahler Leslie A.

Document Summary

Cmd 273 - lecture 1 - introduction to phonetics. Speech - the spoken expression of language. Language - consists of words and grammar used to express our thoughts. Cognition - includes mental processes that help us learn and use speech and language. Phenome - a basic speech segment that has the linguistic function of distinguishing minimal units (one word from another) of meaning in spoken language. Not the same word, but they have a lot in common. First sound and last sound are the same. Completely changes the meaning of the word. A phoneme is the basic sound segment that distinguishes a morpheme. Grapheme - a unit in the writing system of a language. The letters of a word that you write down. A system for transcribing speech according to the sounds used in speaking words. Different from the way they are actually spelled. Depends on an intricate and complex system of structures.