LING 200 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Michonne, Auditory Phonetics, Zookeeper

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 200
• Professor: Mattyas Haggard

Document Summary

The three major branches of phonetics include; acoustic, articulatory and auditory phonetics. 2. 2 speech and continuum (cid:862)these are striki(cid:374)g i(cid:373)ages(cid:863) speech is a kind of continuum (only two breaks in speech sound) When there is no sound = a voiceless stop. Spectrograms = a detailed analysis of physical properties of sounds: they indicate the type of pressure fluctuations. [ ] = pho(cid:374)eti(cid:272) represe(cid:374)tatio(cid:374) (cid:862) (cid:863) = (cid:374)or(cid:373)al orthograph(cid:455) [z] = voiceless (vocal chords vibrate) same place of articulation fricative manner. [g] voiced: [t] [d] [s] [z] alveolar. 2. 4 summary of relevant ipa (international phonetic alphabet) symbols. Set of diacritics: superscripted bird [brd, subscripted (cid:862)(cid:373)iddle(cid:863) [(cid:373)(cid:2352)(cid:2353), = voiced bilabial fricative i. e. enough rough ghoti women nation. Example of a possible exam q: which one does not represent an ipa symbol, a- [ajs] (cid:862)i(cid:272)e(cid:863, b- [(cid:373)a(cid:449) ] (cid:373)ou(cid:374)tai(cid:374)(cid:863, c- [crim] (cid:862)kri(cid:373)(cid:863) Criterial information: changes the meaning of the word. **what might be criterial in one language might be incidental in another language**