FREB44H3 Chapter Notes -Acoustic Phonetics
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Phon tique (phonetic): of or pertaining to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols. Phonologie (phonology): the study and the distribution and patterning of speech sounds in a language and of tacit rules governing pronounciation. Paires minimales (minimal pairs): pairs of words or phrases in a particular language which differ in only one phonological element (e. g. pat + bat) Diacritique (diacritic): a mark, point or sign added or attached to a letter or character to distinguish it from another of similar form to give it a particular phonetic value, to indicate stress (e. g. circumflex) Phonetics relates to the sounds of language and phonology studies how the sounds are put together to create meaning. Phonetics study phonemes (units of sound) that are used in languages to create words. Phonology studies the rules in a language that govern how phonemes are combined to create meaningful words.
