Phonetic Vocab Flashcards
Phonetics
Study of production and classification of speech sounds
Articulatory Phonetics
How we produce sound
Auditory Phonetics
How the ear picks up speech sounds
Acoustic phonetics
Physical properties of the sound waves
Perceptual phonetics
How the brain process speech sounds
Practical phonetics
How to produce, hear, transcribe sounds
Speech sounds
Sounds used in human language
IPA
International Phonetic Alphabet
Sound production
Air supply + sound source + filter chambers
Pulmenic
Use of the lungs
Glottalic
Moving the closed glottis up or down
Velaric
Creating suction with the back of the tongue
Consonants
Total or partial obstruction in vocal tract
Vowels
No obstruction in the vocal tract
Voicing
Vocal chords are brought close to each other, not entirely closed (ie z)