LIN101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Voiceless Dental Fricative, Voiceless Labiodental Fricative, Voiced Labiodental Fricative
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Chapter 2 - phonetics (i): consonants. - cough tough bough through though. Letter, no sound (silent letters) Sound, no letter (missing letters) It provides a one- to- one correspondence between sounds and letters. Most widely used phonetic alphabet is the international phonetic alphabet (ipa) See tables 2. 16 & 2. 17, pp. 39- 40. Branches of phonetics: (phone - sounds) Articulatory phonetics: studies the production of sounds in the vocal tract (our focus) Acoustic phonetics: studies the physical properties of linguistic sounds (sound waves) Air coming from the lungs passes through the vocal tract = shapes the air into different speech sounds. The air then exits through the mouth or nose (figure 2. 1, page 17) On page 18- 19 the larynx is described. Auditory phonetics: studies the perception of sounds by the brain through the human ear. Breathing and preventing food from getting into the lungs. 19 - how the vocal cords produce sound]
