LINGUIST 1A03 Chapter 2: Week-3-Reading
25 Apr 2016
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Liquids and nasals are more sonorous than other consonants: more like vowels than are the other consonants in this respect. May function as the syllabic nuclei: referred to as syllabic liquids and nasals, marked by short diacritic line underneath ipa symbol. Whether a segment is syllabic or not is directly related to how it functions in the syllable. [ _] can be converted to the __ letter with the diacritic underneath it. Vowels are sonorous, syllabic sounds made with the vocal tract more open than it is for consonants and glide articulations. Vowels may be lax or tense, depending on the degree of vocal tract constriction during their articulation. English vowels are divided into two types, simple vowels and diphthongs. Simple vowels do not show a noticeable change in quality during their articulation: ex. Vowels of pie, set, cat, dog, but, put, and the first vowel of suppose.
