LING 2120 Chapter 0: Phonetics Review - LING2120

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It is a basic tenet of linguistics that human language is: The stream of language can be broken down into smaller, individual pieces, and these pieces (which may in themselves mean nothing) can be combined in different ways to create an infinite number of messages. Thus, human language is like a set of lego bricks that can be combined into a boat or a barn or a starship, depending on the plan of the builder. At the level of sentence structure, every language user knows a set of individual words that can be combined in new and different ways to create an infinite number of sentences. When we define the position which the articulator moves (the combination of active articulator and passive articulator). When we define the type of constriction that is made (complete stoppage of air vs. narrow channel, for instance) we are defining the manner of articulation.

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