PS366 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Signify, Function Word, White Noise
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Modified by changing number or length of pauses in utterances also conveys meaning take your time (slower) [d]/[t] are alveolar, and are formed when tongue is placed against the alveolar ridge (top of mouth) [g]/[k] are velar, produced by tongue being placed against the velum at the back of mouth. [b] if cords are separate, speech sound is voiceless: acoustic phonetics. [p] if we were to hear a series of recognizable sounds (buzzers, clicks, sirens) at the rate of conversational speech, we would not be able to distinguish between different sounds only unique to speech perception. Must be some unique acoustic property of speech sounds that allow us to do that spectrograms study of this is called acoustic phonetics sound spectrogram. We hear the difference, but on spectrograph, there is no difference context-conditioned variation describes phenomenon that exact spectrographic appearance of given phone is related to the speech context.
