Pages 82-83 Flashcards
In phonetics what are the basic units
speech sounds or phones
How do phoneticians describe and categorize phones?
Basis of articulatory and acoustic features
Common articulatory features
articulators
manner of articulation
place of articulation
Common acoustic features
nasality
voicing
Your __ __ produce __ (__) which you what?
speech
organs
sounds (phones)
have never noticed before
Your speech organs produce ___ that you ___ categorize as the ___
phones/tokens
mind
same
When are phoneticians doing phonetics?
When they listen for and record the soudns produced by speech organs
phoneme
mental representation of speech sounds
Phonetics
study of how speech sounds are produced
transmitted and received
phonology
study of sound systems of langauge
Native speakers of a langauge do what?
They unconciously organize and represent groups of phones in the mind as ‘families’ each corresponding to a phoneme
What is needed to discover the phonemes of a langauge
distribution of phones
intuitions of native speakers
How are results stated
In sentences
and symbolically
Do phoneticians listen to speech the same way that native speakers perceive it?
No; the listen to speech differently from how native speakers perceive it.
Phoneticians have developed knowledge of __ and __ differences in speech sounds of the worlds languages and can __ and ___these differences using ___ and ____/
articulatory acoustic hear record IPA diacritics
No matter what language phoneticians are working with they can what?
They can hear the differences in speech sounds that native speakers of the language either do not hear at all or simply do not notice because the differenced are not important to the language
phonetic level
when phoneticians listen to speech and record all the acoustic and articulatory differences in speech sounds they can hear.
Phoneticians transciption is a __ or __ transcription and is ___ in ____
phonetic
narrow
recorded
square brackets
Phonemic level
how native speakers of a language normally process speech
What differences do native speakers perceive?
differences between sounds that can change meaning in their language
Theory explains what?
explains the connection between the sounds produced by the vocal apparatus (phones) and their representation in the mind (phonemes)
