LIN100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: International Phonetic Alphabet, Articulatory Phonetics, Acoustic Phonetics
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Required readings: o"grady & archibald, chapter 2, section 2. 0-2. 6: phonetics: introduction. Our language competence involves producing and comprehending speech. Move the tongue back to the velum and make a complete closure, and cease the vocal fold vibration for [ ]); All these movements of articulators (articulatory gestures) have to be precisely timed with respect to each other, so that each movement begins before the preceding one ends. The result of speech production is a sound wave (acoustic signal) traveling through the air. To perceive a word produced by another speaker, the listener has to decode the continuous acoustic signal as a sequence of discrete consonants and vowels, e. g. [d], [ ], and [ ] for dog. This sequence of sounds needs to be further associated with the meaning, activating an internal mental representation for the object. Phonetics studies how speech sounds (or phones) are. Produced by speakers (articulatory phonetics), realized acoustically (acoustic phonetics), and perceived by listeners (auditory phonetics).
