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What is the scope of phonetics?
Studying properties of speech sounds independent of any language.
What does the word 'Phone' in Phonetics mean?
Sound
What is the branch of phonetics that studies how speech organs produce speech sounds?
Articulatory Phonetics
What does acoustic phonetics study?
How speech sounds are transmitted.
What does auditory phonetics investigate?
How speech sounds are received and processed.
What is phonology dependent on?
Phonetics
What are the three main areas of phonetics?
Articulatory, Acoustic, and Auditory Phonetics
What is the study of the physical transmission of speech sounds from the speaker to the listener?
Acoustic Phonetics
What is phonetics concerned with?
The physical properties and features of human speech sounds
What do the articulatory features of consonants include?
Voicing, place of articulation, and manner of articulation
What is the focus of phonology?
The study of how speech sounds form patterns in a language
What is a key aspect of phonology?
The rules that govern sound patterns in a language
What determines the sound patterns in a language?
The rules that govern speech sound patterns in a language
What is true about phonology?
It is concerned with how sounds function in relation to each other in a language
What is an example of phonological knowledge?
Knowing that /lp/ cannot occur at the beginning of a word in English
What is the scope of phonology?
Concerned with the sound system of particulars human languages, including dialects and other language varieties
Study Notes
Speech Sounds: Phonetics and Phonology
- Speech sounds are studied in two fields: Phonetics and Phonology.
Phonetics
- Phonetics studies the properties of speech sounds, independent of any language.
- The word "Phonetics" means scientific or systematic study of human speech sounds.
- Branches of Phonetics:
- Articulatory Phonetics: describes how speech organs/vocal organs are used to produce speech sounds.
- Acoustic Phonetics: studies the physical transmission of speech sounds from speaker to listener.
- Auditory Phonetics: studies hearing and perception of speech sounds, including how sounds are transmitted from ear to brain and processed.
Phonetics: Characteristics of Speech Sounds
- Phonetics is concerned with physical properties/features of human speech sounds, such as:
- Voice (e.g., [p] + bilabial + stop)
- Consonants: distinguished by articulatory features, including voicing, place of articulation, and manner of articulation.
- Vowels: articulatory features include height, backness, and roundedness.
Phonology
- Phonology investigates the role of speech sounds in different languages.
- Definition: Phonology is the study of how speech sounds form patterns in a language.
- Phonology tells us:
- What sounds are in a language
- How they combine into words
- Why certain phonetic features are important to identifying a word
- The sound system of a particular language, including dialects and language varieties
Phonology: Sound Patterns
- Phonology is about the system of rules that underlies and governs sound patterns in a language.
- Examples:
- In English, we cannot have */lp/ at the beginning of a word, but we can have /pl/.
- We can have words like: p...
This quiz covers the basics of phonetics and phonology, two fields that study speech sounds. Phonetics examines the properties of speech sounds, while phonology investigates their role in different languages.
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