LINGUIST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Windows Xp Visual Styles, Voiced Alveolar Fricative, Abugida
25 Oct 2013
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Definition: inventory and structure of the sounds of speech. Acoustic phonetics: measuring and analyzing the physical properties of the sound waves we produce when measured by machines. Auditory phonetics: perception of sound (ear to brain) International phonetic alphabet attempts to represent each sound of human speech with a single symbol. In spectrogram, greater amplitude sections are louder and more energy. Need for a universally agreed-upon system for transcribing sounds of world"s languages. Alphabetic: one symbol = one sound: a graph = sound, not all systems place equal value on consonants and vowels, some alphabets are more consonantal: Abjad system: vowels are absent/optional (arabic and. Hebrew: syllabic: one symbol = one syllable, logographic (word-writing, in cree, symbols represent vowels and consonants together, chinese is logographic. English orthography: correspondence between sounds and symbols in english highly problematic. New, lose, two, loop, soup, rude, true. All same vowel, different ways of representing them.
