LING 2P50 Study Guide - Final Guide: Articulatory Phonetics, Vowel Diagram, Auditory Phonetics

• School: Brock University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 2P50
• Professor: Ron Thomson

Document Summary

Articulatory phonetics: branch of phonetics dealing with how sounds are made. Acoustic phonetics: focus on sounds as they are used in human language. Auditory phonetics: branch of phonetics dealing with hearing and perception. Orthography: the conventional spelling system of a language. Progressive: sound that changes to become like the sound that comes after. Regressive: sound that changes to become like the sound that comes before. Homorganic nasals: nasals are always homogenous that follows. Maximization of onset: want as many consonants at the beginning of a syllable as possible; ie. cvc or ccvc over cvcc. Cardinal vowels: the main vowels/most common vowels across languages: a, , Phototactics: the description/study of all possible sound combinations in a given language. Gaps: words that are phototactically possible in a language but do not currently exist. Systematic gaps: gaps that exist due to rules that prevent people from pronouncing the words; ie. no word begins with / /