LING 1000 Chapter : LING 1000 Phonetics.docx

• School: York University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 1000
• Professor: Susan Ehrlich

Document Summary

Egressive: air is pushed out: ejective sound: air in mouth is pressurized by an upward movement of the closed glottis and released suddenly. Ingressive: air is sucked in to make clicks (tsk: implosives: air drawn from mouth into throat. Articulate by touching bottom lip to upper teeth. Inserts tip of tongue between upper and lower teeth. Alveloars: [t], [d], [n], [s], [z], [l], [r] Raising front part of the tongue to the alveolar ridge (right behind the top 11 and 21) Lateral: [l] tongue raised to the alveolar ridge with sides of tongue down, permitting air to escape laterally over tongue. Retroflex: [r] curling tip of tongue back behind alveolar ridge. Alveolar trill: [r] tip of tongue rolling against roof of mouth (used in some languages) Palatals: [ ]/[ ], [ ]/[z], [c], [j], [j] front of tongue is raised to a point on the hard palate just behind the alveolar ridge.