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Transcribing: descriptive phonetics? transcriptional phonetics? No standard name.
Articulatory phonetics Acoustic phonetics Perceptual phonetics (Psychology) Computational phonetics (CS)
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There is a (1-dimensional) sequence of units that define or characterize the utterance – rather than 2 or more parallel streams. We think of the articulators as being a single instrument rather than as an orchestra.
We can slice the utterances into pieces vertically, in time, and ignore most differences in duration.
Sounds follow one another, and that’s it: there is no packing of them into groups.
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Consonants: first, the stops: b as in bat, sob, cubby d as in date, hid, ado g as in gas, lag, ragged p as in pet, tap, repeat t as in tap, pet, attack k as in king, pick, picking
When we need to emphasizethat we are using a phonetic transcription, we put squarebrackets [b] around the symbols.
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f as in fail, life v as in veil, live Ɵ as in thin, wrath ð as in this, bathe s as in soft, miss z as in zoo, as š (American) or ʃ (IPA) as in shame,
mash ž (American) or ǯ (IPA)as in triage,
garage, azure, h as in help, vehicular
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č (American) or tʃ (IPA) as in cheap, hatch
ǰ (American) or ʤ (IPA) as in jump, hedge
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m as in map, him n as in knot, tin (alveolar POA) ñ as in canyon ŋ as in sing, gingham, dinghy
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l as in large, gull r as in red, jar
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y (American) or j (IPA) as in boy, yellow w as in wall, cow
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6 stops 2 affricates 9 fricatives 4 nasals 2 liquids 2 glides
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Front: I as in bitƐ as in betæ as in batBack
as in putʌ as in putt as in boughta or ɑ as in Mott,
ma, spot
ǝ “schwa” as in about
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iy or i as in beet ey or ej as in bait ay as in bite oy as in boy uw or u as in boot ow as in boat aw as how
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We’ve listened to the sounds of “our” English, and assigned a set of symbols to them.
We abstracted away from pitch, loudness, and duration.
We hope to better understanding our language’s sounds by analyzing them as being composed of a sequence of identifiable sounds, each of which occurs frequently in words of the language.
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Frequently? If a sound occurs in just 2 or 3 words, we don’t take it seriously (glottal stop, velar fricative)
We do this against the background knowledge that the inventory of sounds in English is not necessary as human languages go: they are what they are against a much wider backdrop of possible linguistic sounds.
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We also attempt to physically characterize these sounds: acoustically and articulatorily. Consonants are easier to characterize articulatorily, vowels acoustically.
We are particularly interested in those ways in which the English of Speaker 1 is different from the English of Speaker 2: again, working against the background knowledge of variation.
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We also characterize differences of sounds across sound contexts: we say, notice the different sound that occurs in front of a voiceless consonant in height.
Looking ahead to phonology, we will attempt to get a handle on variation in sounds in two ways:Two sounds are similar if (roughly) we can
characterize one of them as a variant of the other used in a particular context (“under the influence of that context,” so to speak)
Two sounds are distinct (hence, different) if two distinct words differ only with regard to these two sounds, in otherwise identical positions
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We try to characterize the inventory of sounds in a language, knowing that that language chose one set of sounds when a vast range of other possibilities might have been chosen.
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We assign symbols to these sounds; in addition, we want to characterize them as best we can articulatorily and acoustically.
Sounds can be divided into two major groups, consonants and vowels; or set along a continuum known as the sonority hierarchy:
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Vowels Glides Liquids Nasals Obstruents:
FricativesAffricatesStops
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Consonants = obstruents + sonorantsObstruents: (oral) stops, affricates, and
fricativesSonorants: nasals and liquids (l,r)
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The crucial points of articulation for English consonants are:
Labial Labio-dental Dental Alveolar: at the alveolar ridge, behind the
teeth Post-alveolar/palato-alveolar/alveopalatal:
multiple names for the same thing Retroflex (r only) Palatal (y, ñ) Velar Laryngeal
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Obstruents: 6 stops 9 fricatives 2 affricates Nasals (4) 2 other sonorants (what are they?) 2 glides
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Vowels are harder to characterize articulatorily, but we try!
The fact that it’s harder is reflected in the fact that there is more than one way in which it’s done. IPA is one way; American is another.
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From: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/music/vocres.html
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/i/ green
/ae/ hat
/u/ boot
graphics thanks to Kevin Russell, Univ of Manitoba
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“Hi” /haj/
we were away a year ago FORMANTS
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