LECTURE 5

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phonetics
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the general study of physical production and perception of sounds
phonology
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study about abstract linguistic aspects; studies how these sounds function in a language's structure and meaning
articulatory phonetics
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is about how our mouth, tongue and lips move to create the sound
acoustic phonetics
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sound waves
auditory phonetics
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is about how ears and brain work together to understand spoken language
activity of speech organs
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respiration, phonotation, modification
manner of articulation
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how the sound is made, like stopping the airflow through a narrow space
cardinal vowel system
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front, central, back, high, mid, low (tongue); rounded, unrounded
phonemic transcription
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is the way to write down words using symbols to represent their essential sounds; is about important sounds for meaning
phonetic transcription
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is like writing down words using symbols to show exactly how every sound is pronounced
phoneme
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is the smallest unit of sound in a language that can change the meaning of a word.
phones
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in linguistics are the individual speech sounds that make up a language
allophones
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are different pronunciations or variations of a single phoneme in a particual language
distinctive features
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set of characteristics used in phonology to describe and differentiate between the phonemes of a language

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