PSY 3136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Phonetics, Phoneme, Categorical Perception

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3136
• Professor: Christopher Fennell

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Real versus abstract: sounds, description: phonetics is real doing acoustic measurements on the sound, or looking at how i articulate the. [ph] p sound with aspiration like in park . [phones] are shown in square brackets, how to pronounce sounds: phonology is abstract categorize the sounds in my language (come up with abstract categories) Terrier and poodle (they can be described differently, but are both categorized under dog ) /phonemes/ are shown within slashes, the: canadian raising: you going up on diphthongs (e. g. about, house, that"s why americans think you"re saying aboot because they don"t say diphthongs, so they hear it that way. Your ears have an accent (when you hear sounds that aren"t in your language) o. Form versus function category of sounds: see images on the right, b vs. p: they each have a function bye and pie are two very different things. Auditory: your brain processing the information (psychological aspect) o how you process sounds.