[LINB09H3] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (16 pages long!)
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Phonetics: branch of linguistics that studies sounds of human language: articulatory: physiological mechanisms of speech productions, acoustic: Transcription: orthography spelling that a language uses, nothing to do with the way words are pronounced. Writing system that doesn"t reflect what the sounds are. Thought, through, though, cough vs french sain, saint, sein, seing, ceins : respelling not standardized and sometimes ambiguous, dictionary not standardized, specific to particular dialect of a language. Trachea tube that connects lungs and larynx: wind pipe, esophagus for stomach. Larynx voice box/ adams apple has vocal folds (flaps) space between these is the glottis. Pharynx part of throat above larynx, behind tongue. Oral cavity main resonating chamber of vocal tract. Nasal cavity 2nd resonating chamber for nasal (only if velum is lowered) Source-filter model: airflow lungs: push air through glottis, source larynx vocal folds vibrate (buzz, filter supralaryngeal vocal tract shape of tube that air travel through affects its sound.
