LINGUIST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Syllable, Coarticulation, Vocal Folds

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 1A03
• Professor: Catherine Anderson

Document Summary

Acoustic information that is not articulatory: loudness, pitch, length. Sonority is the perceptual outcome of a sound that is perceived as more loud, lower in frequency, and longer in duration. Loudness is often cited as the primary association to sonority, though the phenomenon is more complex. Sonority is directly related to the perception of syllables in speech. Vowels (and some consonants) can serve as the nucleus of a syllable. A syllable is a highly perceptible phonological unit. Obstruent is a class of non-sonorant consonants that includes stop, fricative, and affricate. Stress is carried by the prosodic features of the syllable nucleus. In english, the prosodic features that convey stress are pitch, length, and loudness. In english, syllable stress is affected by phonological and morphological processes. Primary stress is marked with the diacritic . Secondary stress is marked with the diacritic .