LINGUIST 1A03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-3: Syllable, Voice-Onset Time, Epenthesis

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

Document Summary

The science way of thinking about l involves making systematic: empirical observations--we observe data to find the evidence for our theories. All human have unconscious knowledge about the principles of the language they speak. A share system that allows us to understand each other"s ideas when we speak. A generative system: shown creativity of l; human grammar is generative (generating new words and generating new sentences) When we study speech sounds we can consider them from two angles: Acoustic phonetics: acoustics properties of the sound waves that we produce. Articulatory phonetics(focus on this in this course): how we humans use our bodies to produce speech sounds. Source of sound: air flowing from the lungs arrives at the larynx (phonation at the larynx) Haaaaaah your vocal folds are open and the air is passing free;y through the glottis. Source of articulation: the sound is filtered, sharped; articualtion in the mouth.