PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Tongue, Vowel Length, Vocal Folds

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2AA3
• Professor: Jennifer Ostovich

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Its about what the tongue is doing (low vowels mean tongue is low) if u look at open vowels then u say ur opening ur mouth as much as possible to have an open vocal tract. Just depends if u focusing on what the tongue is doing, or how the tongue and the roof of the mouth is doing, or the jaw: define the following vowels according to their main articulatory properties. [i] [u] [e] [shwa]] use two additional categories main dimensions are height and frontness. [e] front vowel then say if it rounded unrounded, and lax or tense. Apicals are sounds made with the tongue tip and laminals are made with the tongue blade (apicals and laminals are just the front part of the tongue) The things on the furthest out the ipa chart, usually the tense vowels (the most vowels u can produce) if u want the opposite u want a central vowel ex.