LING 1001 Lecture Notes - Spectrogram, Egressive Sound, Trachea
6 Mar 2014
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Articulatory: what parts of the mouth are use and what kind of configuration, tools used : x-rays and point tracking devices (electromagnetic articulograph) Acoustic: characteristics of the sounds being produced by the articulation, tools used: sound spectrographs; speech analyzer (praat) Auditory: how humans process speech sounds, tools used: simple experimental methods, mri, ct. Used to write out pronunciations of words in brackets with varying symbols. Phonetic transcriptions use a different alphabet so you can show exactly how a word is being pronounced. Sounds that distinguish words need to have different symbols (thy vs thai) One representation for sounds whose difference arise from context ( k" in keep vs k" in cool) Suprasegments are across a string of segments (they are the stresses on words: having a present vs. presenting a gift. Consonants vs. vowels: consonants: constricted air flow, vowels; free air flow. Multisyllabic words (words) (brackets mean that there is nothing there to be applied [onset & coda])
