ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: International Phonetic Association, General American, Paralanguage
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The sounds of english (yule chapter 3) linguists surveying the world"s languages have counted at least 869 phonemes: a world of speech sounds; the universal repertoire: English:44 phonemes (24 consonants, 12 vowels, 8 diphthongs: what are phonetics and phonology, phonetics is the study of the human sound system: Articulatory phonetics is concerned with what happens in the body when we are producing sounds i. e. articulation: production of speech sounds: Air is pushed from lungs through opening in vocal cords (glottis), located in the larynx. Air continues through the pharynx (tube in the throat) Exits through the oral cavity and the mouth/nasal cavity and the nose. Why do we bother? poem as example: No one-to-one correspondence of sound and orthographic symbol (=letter) International phonetic alphabet: https://www. internationalphoneticassociation. org, developed in 1888 by the international phonetics. Association (ipa: conventionalised way of writing sounds, based roughly on latin spelling system with some new symbols. Http:// www. phoneti cs. ucla. edu/ course/ chapter1/ chapter1. htm l.
