LING 080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Voiceless Labiodental Fricative, Cockney, 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 pronounced. English orthography is inconsistent, but the ipa is. A single sound is always represented by the same symbol in the ipa. We will be talking about segments rather than letters. 3 sounds in the word three - [ i] - th-r-ee. A number of them basically have their normal value in english spelling - sound like you"d expect them to. The engma [n w/ right inner tail] at the end of hang or ring Difference b/t singer and finger - finger has engma and g, singer just has engma. Sound in middle of peter, ladder, at all. They are 2 diff - a theta [], and an eth [] The esh makes a sh sound, as in ashen, should, or hush - voiceless. The ezh makes a "zh" sound, like azure, garage, vision - voiced.