LING 2P53 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sonorant, Vocal Folds, Phoneme
8 Apr 2018
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Phonetics deals with actual physical sounds, concentrating on acoustic waveforms and measuring formant values, duration and frequency. Also deals with physical principles underlying sound production, such as vocal tract resonance. According to phonetics, sound refers to mechanical pressure waves and sensations arising when waves hit your ear. Phonetic = real, measurable articulatory gestures and acoustic events. Phonology is an abstract cognitive system with rules in a mental grammar. Sounds are mental objects grammar can manipulate. Study of higher-level patterns of language sound. Phonology is interested in the sounds of languages, rules for combining sounds and variations in pronunciation. Phonology is the study of sound structure. Sounds are not acoustic events, they are symbolic, cognitive abstractions. Sounds are classes/types of acoustic or articulatory events. Cv structure emerges first and is most common crosslinguistically. An accidental gap is a word that follows phonotactic constraints but just so doesn"t happen to be a real word with meaning.
