10/2 Review

True/ False: Phonetics is the study of speech sounds

• True

• False

Humans create speech sounds by:

• ◦forcing air up from the lungs, through the vocal tract, and out the nose or mouth.

• ◦forcing air up from the lungs, through the vocal tract, and out the ear

How can the air from our lungs get shaped by the vocal tract to create different sounds?

• ◦Vocal fold vibration

  ◦Place of articulation

  ◦Manner of articulation

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  International Phonetic Alphabet

As Linguists and SLPs, Why do we use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)?

• To have an efficient system that provides 1 symbol to represent a unique sound. This allows us to look at a symbol and know exactly which sound it represents

• To have an efficient system that provides multiple symbols for 1 unique sound.

True or False: Phonology focuses on how the sounds of a language pattern

• True

• False

(a)   are meaning-distinguishing sounds that are abstract sound units found within a speaker's mind.

Contrastively, (a)   are different “versions” of a phoneme that are actually pronounced.

True or false: In some languages, aspirated and regular sounds create differences in meaning, making them separate phonemes.

• True

• False

True or false: in Khmer it does not matter whether a consonant is aspirated or not

• False

• True

The phonotactics of a language concern:

• The study of grammatical and derivational word forms

• the phonetic and phonological “rules” of that language