LING 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: International Phonetic Alphabet, Formant, Underlying Representation
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Tempted to list out alphabet but there is no one-to-one correspondence between letters and speech sounds (like cat and ate ) We turn to the international phonetic alphabet (ipa). Each symbol in ipa corresponds to only one speech sound. Phoneme: smallest segment of speech that leads to a meaningful difference in meaning in words (ex: cat and car, so r and t are two distinct phonemes) Sound is simply a distortion of air molecules. Amplitude is the physical force applied to the wave (creates volume ; increase in amplitude = increase in volume) Frequency is the number of waves per unit of time in a given cycle (creates. Pitch ; increase in frequency = increase in pitch) Our vocal folds are the area where our voice comes from (they create multiple frequencies at once called harmonics, with the loudest frequency and the only one we can hear, called the fundamental frequency)
