LIN 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Articulatory Phonetics, Acoustic Phonetics, Auditory Phonetics

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LIN 1300
• Professor: Kathleen Brannen

Document Summary

Study of the most minimal units that make up a language (spoken language=speech. Acoustic phonetics : the study of the transmission/ physical properties of speech sounds. Wants to study how speech sounds are physically formed within the mouth cinematography / x-ray photography has been used for palatography (study of the palot) Interested in the characteristics of sound, and use a sound spectrograph. Mri and ct scans used to study. Impressionistic phonetic transcription: method of writing down speech sounds in order to capture what is said and how it is pronounced. you say tomato, i say tomahto . Same sound spelled using different letters ex: the i sound in see, sea, scene, receive, thief, machine. Sometimes a single sound is spelled by a combination of letters ex: lock, that, book, boast, mountain, Phonetics are divided into two main categories: segments suprasegmentals. Discrete units of speech stream that can be broken down into smaller categories, consonants and vowels.