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Grammar

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Rules for forming and combining words

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Syntax

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More general rules for combining words to make meaningful sentences

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The source-filter model

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  1. Air expelled from lungs (diaphragm and chest)
  2. Narrowed through vocal cords in the larynx. Causes increase of air speed/pressure (Bernoulli’s principle) which cases vibration: voiced tonal sounds)
  3. Resonating body above vocal cords shapes and filters the power.
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Phones

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Basic speech sound stimuli. actual perception of phones are phonemes

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Phonemes

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Smallest unit of a word that has meaning.

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Vowels

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Produced from oscillations in vocal cords. Nucleus of syllable, tonal quality

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Consonants

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Produced from quick changes in sound energy, categorised by place or manner of articulation.

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