LING 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Articulatory Phonetics, Vocal Tract, Auditory Phonetics
12 Oct 2018
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Phonetics: study of minimal units that make up language. Articulatory phonetics: study of production of speech sounds. Acoustic phonetics: study of transmission and the physical properties of speech sounds. Auditory phonetics: study of perception of speech sounds. Palatography: experimental method that shows the contact between the tongue and the roof of the mouth. Sound spectograph: equipment that generates spectrograms from speech input. Impressionistic phonetic transcription: method of writing down speech sounds in order to capture what is said and how it is pronounced. Co-articulation: influence of one sound on a neighboring sound. Segments: discrete units of the speech stream and can be further subdivided into the categories consonants and vowels. Suprasegmentals: a phonetic characteristics of speech sounds, such as length, intonation, to(cid:374)e, or stress, that (cid:862)rides o(cid:374) top of(cid:863) seg(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal features. Consonants: produced with a constriction somewhere in vocal tract that impedes airflow. Vowels: slight narrowing and allow air to flow freely through oral cavity.
