LINA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Vocal Tract, Tenseness, Nasalization
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Vowels are sounds produced with no major obstruction in the vocal tract so that the air can flow relatively freely through the mouth. Whether vowels remains stable throughout the vowel or not. Monopthongs (simple vowels: vowels produced with one stable vowel sound, hot hit met mat could cut. Dipthongs (complex vowels: vowels produced with a change in vowel quality, consists of a vowel and a glide (/j/ or /w/, hide loud boy grow say. Backness of the highest point of the tongue body. Front: heed, hid, hay, head, hat. Sept. 27: who"d, hood, hoe, boy, hot. Tense vowels are produced with more extreme articulation than their lax counterparts. Tense vowels can occur word-finally in english but lax vowels cannot (except for schwa) Chest pulse theory : pulses of respiratory muscle activity correlate with syllables false. Jaw opening cycle : one cycle of oscillation of the jaw corresponds to a syllable false.
