ATS1338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sociolinguistics, Liquid Consonant, Timothy Evans
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Articulatory phonetics studies the way in which speech sounds are produced. Auditory phonetics focuses on the perception of sounds or the way in which sounds. Acoustic phonetics uses instrumental techniques to study the physical properties are heard and interpreted of speech sounds. It allows us to see" (and scientifically measure) what we"ve already heard and assessed. Facilitates the objective comparison of data samples. Perhaps of an individual group of individuals to a reference sample (such as a certain social group, or. A group matched for age or gender), or. Samples from the same individual at different moments in time. Sound is turned into something you can see - a spectogram: forensic phonetics. Draws on the applications of phonetics, the scientific study of speech, in a court of law. One of the first examples of forensic linguists at work. Reg christie, serial killer in 1940s and 1950s. Murdered at least 8 people in notting hill london, at his flat.