LING 1F94 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Conceptual System, Componential Analysis, Connotation
25 Feb 2016
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Viewing language as a complex system/fractal and what that means in general terms. How speech sounds are made (e. g. basic articulators as per seminar quiz) Speech production processes that impact how sounds are pronounced (part of phonetics and phonology) Features of sounds (don"t memorize, just be familiar with some basic ones) Role of grammar and pragmatics in understanding meaning. Phonetics: the study of phones; appears like [m] or [aj] Acoustic phonetics: study of physical properties of speech sounds. Aspiration: a release of air after a full obstruction that influences neighboring sounds; rule: must be a voiceless stop at the beginning of a syllable (p, t, k) Level tones: flat tone, high tone, low tone. Intonation: pitch movement at the level of a phrase or sentence. Length: differences in vowels and consonants that signal a difference in meaning (ex. From yapese [pul] to gather" vs. [pu:l] moon") Stress: signified by differences in pitch, length and loudness.
