[LING 1F94] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (24 pages long)

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[ow] mid back rounded tense vowel: [sowk] soak, crow. [ ] mid central unrounded lax vowel: [sowf ] sofa. [ ] mid central unrounded lax vowel: [b t] but. [a] low back unrounded tense vowel (awh: [lat] lot. Used when there is some degree of stress on the vowel. Phonetic parameters for vowels are written in a particular order: height (high, mid, low, backness (front or back, rounding (rounded or unrounded, tense or lax, vowel or dipthong (has 1 speech sound) There are no commas in between parameters and other terms (anterior, frontal) Ipa chart for vowels (reduced means does not take stress) They can move around in a sentence. We know they exist because we see them in speech errors. Speech is continuous, there are no pauses between words in regular speech. E(cid:454): liste(cid:374) to a foreig(cid:374) la(cid:374)guage, (cid:455)ou (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t tell (cid:449)he(cid:374) a (cid:449)ord (cid:271)egi(cid:374)s a(cid:374)d e(cid:374)ds. When we perceive speech, we are mapping information onto that sound wave.