LING 2007 Study Guide - Final Guide: Ingressive Sound, Language Transfer, First Language

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 2007
• Professor: Bethany Mac Leod

Document Summary

Briefly explain how phonetics is used in the different areas we discuss (applications: technology. Speech recognition (speech -> transcription) language learning (programs for language learning online: language learning. Accents research on how to learn phonemes: speech and language pathology transcribe what said figure out what problem is (physiological, cognitive, language revitalization: transcribing oral accounts, recording speaker, creating dictionaries. Provide 2 differences between traditional sociolinguistics and sociophonetics traditional sociolinguistics. Binary categories, traditional social categories (age, class, gender, region) Perceptual analysis of interviews: sociophonetics researches beyond traditional social categories. Briefly explain what the following things: categorical perception. Categories exist in perception of consonants (vot) Equal acoustic changes do not result in the perception of equal changes. Cannot detect changes within categories, but between categories: range effects. Boundaries of categories shift based on the range of vots: rate effects. Boundaries of categories shift based on the rate of the speech. Slower or faster speech changes vot in speakers, so adjust: the ganong effect.