The document discusses several linguistic concepts:
- Vowels are voiced sounds produced without major constriction in the vocal tract, with front, center, and back vowels differing in where the tongue is raised.
- Connected speech has rhythm from stressed syllables and intonation conveys meaning through pitch rises and falls.
- A phoneme is a distinctive sound, while allophones are nondistinctive variants that can be substituted without changing the word.
The document discusses several linguistic concepts:
- Vowels are voiced sounds produced without major constriction in the vocal tract, with front, center, and back vowels differing in where the tongue is raised.
- Connected speech has rhythm from stressed syllables and intonation conveys meaning through pitch rises and falls.
- A phoneme is a distinctive sound, while allophones are nondistinctive variants that can be substituted without changing the word.
The document discusses several linguistic concepts:
- Vowels are voiced sounds produced without major constriction in the vocal tract, with front, center, and back vowels differing in where the tongue is raised.
- Connected speech has rhythm from stressed syllables and intonation conveys meaning through pitch rises and falls.
- A phoneme is a distinctive sound, while allophones are nondistinctive variants that can be substituted without changing the word.
- the sound is produced without major constriction in the vocal tract
- front vowels: front of the tongue raises to the hard palate - center vowels: center of the tongue raises toward the juncture of the hard palate and the soft palate - back vw: back of the tongue raises toward the hard palate Connected speech: 1. Rhythm - Strong regular repeated pattern of sounds or movements. - E is stressed-time language: the time from each stressed syllable to the next will tend to be the same - English speech is rhythmical and that rhythm is detectable in the regular occurrence of stressed syllables - Rhythm is relatively equal between stressed syllables - Intonation - How the pitch of the voice rises and falls and how speakers use pitch variation to convey the meaning - Pitch: auditory sensation, carry some linguistic information - Tone unit: + The head – optional: extend from the first stressed syllable up to (not including) the tonic syllable + The tonic syllable – obligatory: highest degree of prominence + The tail – optional Phoneme - Phoneme is a contrastive or distinctive sound - Many phonemes can be pronounced in more than one way, these different realizations are called allophones. - Allophones (realizations): nondistinctive or noncontrastive variants of phonemes - substitute one allophone with another will not lead to a different word We seem to have a definite one there. Could it be a stool rather than a table? And how many stripes on yours? Why should a man earn more than a woman? Have you taken them from that box?
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