LIN100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Articulatory Phonetics, Nasal Vowel, Acoustic Phonetics
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Language can be written, manually signed, mechanically reproduced, and even synthesized by computers with considerable success. Because language and speech are so closely linked, we begin our study of language by examining the inventory and structure of the sounds of speech (phonetics) Human languages display a wide variety of sounds, called phones (from greek. A very wide range of sounds is found in human language (600 consonants and. One approach to phonetics studies the physiological mechanisms of speech production (this is known as articulatory phonetics) The other approach is known as acoustic phonetics, is concerned with measuring and analyzing the physical properties of the sound waves we produce when we speak. The best known system for devising a universal system for transcribing the sounds of speech, the international phonetic alphabet (ipa), has been evolving since 1888. This system of transcription attempts to represent each sound of human speech with a single symbol.
