LIN100Y1 Chapter Notes -Sound Intensity, Vocal Tract, Canadian English
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Vowels: created with little obstruction in the vocal tract, sonorous (consonants are less sonorous, tense or lax, velum may be lowered (allophone vowel, high acoustic intensity, always function as the nucleus of a syllable. High (pit), medium (pet), low (pat: backness. Front sounding vowels put, pot, but. Back sounding vowels pit, pat, bet: roundness. Lax vowels do not end words (except sometimes schwa [ ]) Diphthongs: change sound over the course of the vowel. Formed with a simple vowel and a glide: considered to be one segment of two separate phones. Vowels in world languages: the most common 5 vowels are [a], [e], [i], [o], [u] Not based on letters: measured in: Intonation (sentence meanings: falling pitch at the end = completeness, rising pitch at the end = incompleteness, some languages use both tone and intonation, however, many only use one or the other. Short or long productions of the same phone.
