LINGUIS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Vocal Tract, Tenseness, Vocal Folds

• School: UW-Madison
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIS 101
• Professor: Becky Shields

Document Summary

There may be less vowels, but they are almost more difficult than consonants! Vocal tract is open, air flows easily out. Reading sagittal sections for vowels (not required in class, just extra info) Identify on 2 different planes/plots, front to back, in terms of height. Tongue height: how high the tongue is. Tongue advancement: where the tongue is in the mouth (front to back) at the highest point. High, mid and low (english uses all 3) You can feel (slightly) your tongue moving up and down when switching between vowels. Bead bid made bed bad (ih) (ee) Most languages use 3 parameters (english uses all 3) Made mud mode (uh) (oh) (aye) O (oh): lips move forward, but tongue moves back. Mid tense vowels are always pronounced as (automatic) diphthongs. Dialect variation between [ ] and [ ] some can"t distinguish between these sounds. Vowels can either be rounded or unrounded.