[LINGUIST 1A03] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (16 pages long)

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 1A03
• Professor: Catherine Anderson

Document Summary

Articulation: speech is parasitic on breathing and eating. What are the three steps in producing speech: respiration, phonation, articulation. Lots of glottal states: voiced, voiceless, murmur, creaky (vocal fry) All languages have consonants and vowels: speech is organized around syllables: a peak of sonority surrounded by less sonorous sounds, every syllable has a nucleus, vocal tract alternatives open/closed. Voicing, placing of articulation, and manner of articulation. Lips, teeth, hard palate, alveolar ridge, nasal cavity, velum (soft palate), larynx (glottis) English sounds made at the glottis (voiceless) glottal fricative [h] (voiceless) glottal stop [?] Manners of articulation: stops (a. k. a plosives, nasals - oral cavity. Whats a syllable: syllables organized around acoustic energy, peak of sonority surrounded by less sonorous sounds, sonority - acoustic energy (how much sound is there, most to least sonorous : vowels, nasals and liquids, glides, fricatives, aps stops.