Introduction to Phonology Introduction to Phonetics Human listeners

Introduction to Phonology

Introduction to Phonetics Human listeners can hear speech as a sequence of sounds, and each sound can be represented by a written mark. How this idea can be based on a comprehensive system of phonetic symbols, and how this is different from the many existing writing systems for particular languages. continuous vs. abstract

Symbols for particular languages IPA provides a stock of symbols, and principles and conventions for using them.

Segments: vowels and consonants Segments are of two kinds: vowels and consonants. Using V to stand for any vowels and C for any consonants. A sequence of one consonant followed by one vowel which in turn is followed by one consonant. The representation is called a CV-skeleton.

Supra-segmentals Suprasegmentals are features that are not themselves segments, and spread across several successive segments. Stress and tone are in this category. English: IMport (N); im. PORT (V) Chinese: Ma…

Qs Why almost all languages have consonant sounds, such as /p, t, k, s, f, m/? Why /i, a, u/? UPSID Data on the phonological systems of 451 languages, with programs to access it, by Ian Maddieson and Kristin Precoda.

Speech is really a matter of movement, where you are making with your lips, tongue and jaw.

Vocal tract

Articulators Passive articulator: It does not move, usually refers to some part of the upper surface of the vocal tract. Active articulator: It moves toward the passive articulator, usually refers to some part of the tongue.

Place The location in the vocal tract where an articulation occurs is called the place of articulation. For most articulations the term used to describe the place of articulation is based on the name of the passive articulator concerned.

子音 (consonants) 發音方式 (Manner of articulation) 發音位置 (Place of articulation) 聲帶震動 (voicing)

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Acoustic phonetics

Auditory phonetics

WHAT IS PHONOLOGY? Phonology is one of the core fields that composes the discipline of linguistics, which is defined as the scientific study of language structure. An important feature of the structure of a sentence is how it is pronounced- its sound structure. Sign languages have their own phonological system.

WHAT IS PHONOLOGY EXACTLY? Phonology, it is said, is an abstract cognitive system dealing with rules in a mental grammar: principles of subconscious “thought” as they relate to language sound.

心理詞彙（mental lexicon ） Morphology: English: 「 electric 」（電的）和「 electricity 」 （電力）。「 electric 」最後子音是 [k] ， 可是在「 electricity 」變成 [s] k s / _ i

THE SOUNDS OF LANGUAGE Different language may contain different sounds in their system. E. g. , German vs. English

German final devoicing Final obstruent devoicing or terminal devoicing is a systematic phonological process occurring in languages such as German, Dutch, Polish, and Russian, among others. In these languages, voiced obstruents in the syllable coda or at the end of a word become voiceless.

Phonology vs. Phonetics A common characterization of the difference between phonetics and phonology is that phonetics deals with “actual” physical sounds as they are manifested in human speech, and concentrates on acoustic waveforms, formant values, measurements of duration measured in milliseconds, of amplitude and frequency, or in the physical principles underlying the production of sounds.

PHONETICS VS. PHONOLOGY The basic tool behind this conversion of the continuous stream of speech sound into units is the phonetic transcription. The philosophy behind a transcription is that one can adequately represent all of the linguistically important details of an utterance by symbols whose interpretation is predefined.

Transcription Cat [ k æt] vs. [ kæt ] Narrow transcription vs. broad transcription

Phonology then can be defined as the study of higher-level patterns of language sound, conceived in terms of discrete (分離 的；互不相連的；各別的) mental symbols, whereas phonetics can be defined as the study of how those mental symbols are manifested (顯現) as continuous muscular contractions and acoustic waveforms.

Why those features? 音韻徵性（feature） [ ]=[+nasal, +back] ; [k]=[-nasal, +back] ; / /=[-back, -nasal] ; {king} vs. {kick}

GOAL The goal of phonology is not to provide accurate symbolic representations of speech to understand the linguistic rules which operate on sounds mentally represented as symbols, and the transcription in our means of representing the data which we discuss.