LIN200H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Monophthong, Tenseness, Palatine Uvula
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We know a great deal about the complex sounds and the sound system of english; it is not something we think about but comes effortlessly. Spelling is a cultural artefact, and is not necessarily language! There is not a one-to-one correspondence between sound and spelling, so linguists use a system for describing sounds of language in which each sound is represented by a single symbol (ipa- Linguists use a one-to-one sound to symbol convention that accurately tells them how to document any speech sound. Languages would have arabic would have trouble writing the sound in words. It is a systematic approach to documenting speech sounds using articulatory specifications. Natural class is a set of sounds that have certain phonetic features in common. The one"s in grey are voiced, white are voiceless. Are distinctive sounds in a language that makes a difference in the meaning of a word: for example, sometimes p"s sound like b"s, yet we consider them all p"s.
