LINB09H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Syllable, Sonorant, Formant
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Round vowels usually mean a lower f2. Formants meet together making a thick formant. Tone lexical contrasts: emotional states and contrasts, questions and commands. Rules governed by: acceptable in almost all languages, certain number of units in a word. Openness in vocal tract: sonority thing that is most sonorous in middle (mostly vowels, phonotactics syllable structure rules that differ from language to. Don(cid:495)t memorize number of sonority in book* Sonority curves: shape is a curved parabolic shape, onset rising, then falling sonority after middle (most sonorous, /s/ can appear in onset and codas (exception in english) allowed to be a s stop cluster. Permit almost any segment to be a syllable nucleus. Large consonant clusters and even vowel-less words. Syllable structure: onset: optional; consonants appearing before nucleus, nucleus: obligatory! Normally a vowel or high-sonority segment: coda: optional; consonants appearing after nucleus, rhyme: grouping of nucleus and coda, open doesn(cid:495)t have a coda.
