LINGUIST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Vocal Tract, Diphthong, Dej
29 May 2016
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Liquids and nasals are more sonorous than other consonants and in this respect are more like vowels. Syllabic nasals and syllabic liquids. ex. bottle, funnel bird, her,hidden. The [n] in a word like no is not syllabic~does not form the nucleus of the syllable. The word hidden has the [n] as the nucleus. The [r] sound found in words like birds and her is often transcribed as. More sonorous, syllabic sounds are with the vocal tract more open than it is for consonants and glide articulation. Different sounds are made based on placement of tongue, shaping of lips, shape of vocal tract. Vowels maybe tense or lax ~ depends on the degree of vocal tract constriction during articulation. English vowels are divided into two major parts, simple vowels and diphthongs. Does not have noticeable change in quality during their articulation. Has a change in quality within a single syllable due tongue movement away from the initial vowel articulation.
