Linguistics 1028A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Linguistic Prescription, Phonetics, Ghoti
2 Jun 2020
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Potential exam questions: saying that you ain"t going nowhere is an acceptable example of, prescriptive grammar, universality, mutability, descriptive grammar. Grammar: descriptive not prescriptive => linguists are ok with slang and double negatives etc, 5 components: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics (meanings and how things change i. e gay) Phonetics: phonetics- the study of the inventory and structure of the sounds of speech, international phonetics association developed ways of representing all sounds in all languages independently of writing systems, here focuses on articulatory phonetics. Segments of sounds: segment: discrete unit of speech sound, consonants vs. vowels, syllabic vs. non-syllabic sounds, think sounds not letters. Describing consonants: three features, voicing (state of the glottis) Not vibrating = voiceless: place of articulation. Place: right on the top horizontally from the front of the vocal track all the way down to the vocal chords. Bilabial (at front where lips are involved) Alveopalata (between hard and soft pallet j sounds)
