ANT102H5 Chapter Notes -Phonetics, Linguistic System, Marvin Harris
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Used three approaches: auditory phonetics: study of the perception and processing of speech sounds. Eg. tests people"s ability to hear or to distinguish between particular speech sounds with a specialized equipment. 2)acoustic phonetics: deals with the physical properties of sound waves moving through the air. Eg. instrument sounds recorded in a recorder: articulatory phonetics: study of gestures,made in the voal tract, that result in the production of speech sounds. > interests anthropologists because it enables them to inventory the sounds of a previously unwritten language, in preparation for making a phonemic study of the language, and also to facilitate the recording of linguistic data. Speech sounds are produced by moving air through the vocal tract,which extends from the larynx to the lips and includes the nasal cavity. Vowel :produced by passing air through the tract without obstruction. quality depends on the positioning and tension of the tongue muscle,and by presence or absence of lip rounding.
