LINGUIST 1A03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Articulatory Phonetics, International Phonetic Alphabet, Vocal Folds
18 Jan 2018
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Inaccessibility: almost all knowledge in our mental grammar is unconscious knowledge. Classifying speech sounds: we classify sounds into classes according to phonetic properties, sonority: the amount of acoustic energy of a sound, ex. Loud sound is more sonorous: more airflow and voicing from vocal folds is more sonorous, categories of sound: Short, less sonorous: syllable: peak of sonority surrounded by less sonorous sounds, most sonorous sound is called. Labiodentals: made with lower lip and upper teeth (ex. fire, vow: dental: sound made with tongue places against or near teeth (ex. Nucleus coda: non-core syllables, violate the sorority and binary requirement, rare in world"s languages and are subject to special restrictions in languages in which they occur: extra consonants tend to occur at word edges. In english, only /s/ can serve as extra consonant in onsets, so all ccc onsets begin w /s/ In english, the extra consonants are always voiceless and made w the tip of the to(cid:374)gue (cid:894)e(cid:454).
