11Phonetics2_removed.pdf

SPEECH SOUND PRODUCTION: THE BASICS ¢ ¢ When you know the phonetic inventory of a language, you know how to produce its sounds Speech production is made by using different articulators (lips, tongue, etc.) — So we want to understand how these articulators are used to make linguistic sounds 5 R...

SPEECH SOUND PRODUCTION: THE BASICS ¢ ¢ When you know the phonetic inventory of a language, you know how to produce its sounds Speech production is made by using different articulators (lips, tongue, etc.) — So we want to understand how these articulators are used to make linguistic sounds 5 REMEMBER THE VOCAL TRACT ¢ 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. These articulators are involved in the production of linguistic sounds alveolar ridge hard palate soft palate / velum uvula pharynx glottis lips teeth tongue 8 7 9 6 SPEECH SOUND PRODUCTION: THE BASICS ¢ Why do we need to use articulators (parts of our vocal tract used to make language sounds) to define sounds? ¢ Why not just rely on orthography / spelling? ¢ Spelling is full of inconsistencies with regards to sounds: Did he believe that Caesar would see the people seize the seas? (all one sound!) 7 SPEECH SOUND PRODUCTION: THE BASICS ¢ Orthography: A. skip ship raise Phonetics ¹ Spelling house ghost tough clip ice rich B. eight/ate Kathryn/Cathryn/Catherine to/too/two 8 SPEECH SOUND PRODUCTION: THE BASICS ¢ Orthography: Phonetics ¹ Spelling C. puff rough shun/emotion jet/suffragette D. We also have letters that are sometimes not pronounced in English. where opossum island psychology answer gnome subtle knife make 9