PHYSICS 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Vocal Tract, Psalms, Consonant Cluster
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Suprasegmentals (word stress, sentence stress, intonation, pausing, linking) You can feel a vibration in your throat when you produce them. There is no vibration in your throat when you produce them. /d/ -> requires vibration in your throat, no aspiration. The air flow to the vocal tract is blocked, but then released with a bust of air (more with unvocied sounds). An aspirated sound is one where air is produced when making the sound. /p/ and /b/ are not pronounced in some words: pseudo, psalm, psychology, tomb, combing, bomb, dumb, womb, plumber. At the end of a word, it is always pronounced /ks/ e. g. fix, tax, mix, relax. Before an unstressed syllable it is also pronounced /ks/ e. g. exercise, mexican. Before a stressed syllable, it is pronouced /gz/ e. g. example, exact, exist. Obstruction to the airflow but it is not completely blocked. If a word starts with the letter s it is unvoiced.
