Understanding Phonetics Understanding Language series Series editors: Bernard Comrie‚ Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology‚ Leipzig‚ Germany Greville Corbett‚ Surrey Morphology Group‚ University of Surrey‚ UK The Understanding Language series provides approachable‚ yet authoritative‚ introductions to major topics in linguistics. Ideal for students with little or no prior knowledge of linguistics‚ each book carefully explains the basics‚ emphasising understanding of the
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1. Phonetics as a science. - it’s a subject matter in branches. Term comes from Greek word “Phonitikos” (голосовой) or the science of the voice. Phonetics is a science‚ which treats the sounds of which language is composed. Phonetics (encyclopedia) is the study of how the speech sounds are made (articulatory phonetics)‚ the acoustic properties of the sound (acoustic phonetics) and how sounds are organized in the language (linguistic phonetics). Phonetics (Webster) is the science or a study of speech
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14 CHAPTER 2 Articulatory Phonetics SPEECH SOUND FORM LEARNING OBJECTIVES 2 When you have finished this chapter‚ you should be able to: • List the differences in production and function of vowels versus consonants. • Identify the three descriptive parameters that are used for vowel articulations‚ and classify the vowels of American English using those three parameters. • Differentiate between monophthong and diphthong vowels. • Define centering diphthongs. • Differentiate between a phonemic
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PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY: ENG 221 {LECTURER: MRS FALEKE V.O} 200 LEVEL COURSE CONTENT (i) Introducing Phonetics a. What is Phonetics? b. What is Phonology? c. The Three Branches of Phonetics d. Types of Phonology e. Aspects of Phonology f. Phonetics and Phonology any Relationship (ii) The Organs of Speech and Human Speech Mechanism a. The Organs of Speech b. The Human Speech c. The human Speech Mechanism d. Description of the English Consonant e. Description of the Vowel Sounds
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Introduction to Phonetics Speaking is such a normal part of our everyday life that we usually do not stop to think about what we are doing. It could be compared to walking: once you have learned how to do it‚ it becomes an automatic action that does not require conscious thought. If we had to think carefully about every single step it takes to produce speech‚ it would take us hours to form a single sentence. Luckily‚ there is no need for this‚ as long as we stick to our native language or dialect
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Forensic Phonetics: Issues in speaker identification evidence Andrew Butcher Centre for Human Communication Research Flinders Medical Research Institute Flinders University‚ Adelaide‚ Australia Abstract The field of forensic phonetics has developed over the last 20 years or so and embraces a number of areas involving analysis of the recorded human voice. The area in which expert opinion is most frequently sought is that of speaker identification – the question of whether two or more recordings
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INTRODUCTION TO PHONETICS Communication is possible only with use of language. A language can be used in two ways for the purpose of communication .The two purpose of communication is spoken and written. Speech is more important medium than the medium of writing. USES OF SPEECH: *Speech comes first in history. *Speech comes first in the history of any individual. *Speech is used much more than writing as a medium‚ *Written language is an attempt to represent the sands used in spoken language
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be studied from two points of view: the phonetic and the phonological.1 Phonetics is a linguistic science which studies and describes the sounds of speech in a language‚ the way humans make‚ transmit and receive speech sounds. Phonetics can be divided into articulatory phonetics which studies the way the vocal organs are used to produce speech sounds‚ there is acoustic phonetics which studies the physical properties of speech sounds‚ and auditory phonetics which studies the way people perceive speech
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Articulatory Phonetics We will spend the next few days studying articulatory phonetic: what is involved in the actual movement of various parts of the vocal tract during speech. (Use transparancy to discuss organs of speech; oral‚ pharyngeal and nasal cavities; articulators‚ lungs and diaphragm). All speech sounds are made in this area. None are made outside of it (such as by stomping‚ hand clapping‚ snapping of fingers‚ farting‚ etc.) Theoretically‚ any sound could be used
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PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY Seminar Ante Marunica INTRODUCTION Prescriptivism and descriptivism Throughout the ages‚ grammarians and linguists have been attempting to formulate the speakers’ grammar in a set of rules‚ though it is probably fair to say that they have not yet been able to do so
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