Phonetics 5: Vowel Length, Suprasegmentals, PDF

VOWEL LENGTH - DANISH — mass — mash — remind — mean — wild — rest [æ] [æ:] [e] [e:] [i] [i:] SUPRASEGMENTALS : LENGTH — Japanese shows length contrasts for both vowels and consonants. — Japanese [biru] building [saki] ahead [biiru] beer [sakki] before Long consonants are called ‘geminates’ 3...

VOWEL LENGTH - DANISH — mass — mash — remind — mean — wild — rest [æ] [æ:] [e] [e:] [i] [i:] SUPRASEGMENTALS : LENGTH — Japanese shows length contrasts for both vowels and consonants. — Japanese [biru] building [saki] ahead [biiru] beer [sakki] before Long consonants are called ‘geminates’ 31 SUPRASEGMENTALS : PITCH — Pitch is an auditory property that allows listeners to place sound on a scale going from low to high — The higher the frequency (number of times the vocal folds open and close during 1 second), the higher the pitch. (measured in Hz) — Pitch varies depending on how quickly the vocal folds vibrate: the faster they vibrate, the higher the pitch. — Women and children: often have smaller larynx (smaller, lighter vocal chords) à higher pitch 32 SUPRASEGMENTALS : INTONATION — Intonation is achieved by raising & lowering the pitch of your voice. — In English, can pitch affect the meaning of a word? A whole sentence? — How does the pitch change in these sentences? That’s a pig. That’s a pig? That’s a pig! SUPRASEGMENTALS : TONE — Tone deals with the relative pitch of a speaker’s voice in the production of a word. — Languages frequently make distinctions based on tone. Consider the following words from Vietnamese: https://youtu.be/-1xdgS-3lGA?t=71