LING 2604 Quiz: child language notes

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 2604
• Professor: Jacquie Ballantine

Document Summary

Plan: we will go over characteristics of speech sounds quickly, we might continue today"s topic next week. What is phonetics: the study of the minimal units (phones) that make up language, three branches in phonetics. Articulatory phonetics articulators are anything in your mouth (tongue: the study of the production of speech sounds. Acoustic phonetics: the study of the transmission and the physical properties of speech sounds. Auditory phonetics: the study of the perception of speech sounds. Our goals in phonetics: understand the nature of speech sounds, transcribe speech sounds they try to write the sounds people make, understand the difference between segmental (each unit) vs. suprasegmental features ( . ) Three different aspects of the articulaton of consonants. Is the sound voiced or voiceless (i. e. , voicing): where is the airstream constricted (i. e. , the place of articulation, how is the airstream constricted (i. e. , the manner of articulation)