ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Articulatory Phonetics, Acoustic Phonetics, Language Isolate
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Overview: phonology (speech sounds, morphology (units of meaning, syntax (structure of language) [for exam] you can use english examples when referring to this topic, it is okay. And for content on this topic, focus more on the lecture information rather than the reading, but you still have to do the reading. A huge portion of the brain is devoted to controlling our hands. We can isolate language away from our movements. But, in our everyday communication we also use non-verbal communication. Phonetics - acoustic phonetics and articulatory phonetics (sound production) Acoustic phonetics - refers to the physics of sound (speech recognition) Small part of anthropology, but very important to phoneticists. Articulatory phonetics - how sound is made in relation to the movement of our body parts (muscles in our tongues etc. ) Unique body parts give us our unique tones etc. Phonemics - phonemes and allophones (sound perceiving) Phonemes - subjective aspect of sound (perception)
