LING 080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: English Orthography, Vocal Tract, Dental And Alveolar Flaps

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 080
• Professor: Tony Cook

Document Summary

By where they"re made in your mouth/vocal tract. By what your speech organs are doing as the sound is produced. Pulmonic: consonantal sounds made by lungs pushing air. The roman alphabet we use for day-to-day english orthography is inconsistent o. There are no rules that a particular letter (or sequence of letters) is always pronounced the same way o. A single sound always gets represented by the same symbol in the ipa. We will be talking about segments rather than letters. A number of them basically have heir normal value in english spelling (in other words, they sound like you"d expect them to) [ ] is pronounced as a normal reading of r The engma [ ] is the velar nasal sound at the end of hang or ring It"s not an r, it"s a fishhook. The sound in the middle of ladder Does the th cluster in english always make the same sound: no, there is voiced and unvoiced.