Lecture Phonetics & Phonology: Lecture 1 has content: Phonetics vs. Phonology, How speech sounds are produced, Consonants (Definition, Classification, Describing consonants, Identifying consonants). | Lecture 1 1. 2. 3. • • Phonetics vs. Phonology How speech sounds are produced? Consonants Definition Classification - According to place of articulation - According to manner of articulation - According to voicing Describing consonants Identifying consonants 1 • • Phonetics vs. Phonology 1. Phonetics: is the linguistic science that studies speech sounds: the way in which they are produced (uttered, articulated), the way in which they are perceived, their physical characteristics, etc. The questions that Phonetics answer are: What sounds occur in human languages? How these speech sounds are made? What physical properties do they have? In what way can speech sound similar to, or different from, other speech sounds? 2 • • • • Phonetics vs. Phonology • a. There are three main areas of Phonetics Articulatory phonetics: is the study of how speech sounds are produced using the articulators - the parts of the body involved in producing speech sounds. Acoustic phonetics, which is also considered a branch of physics, involves the study of the speech signals (the sound waves produced when a speaker speaks). In other words, it deals with the transmission of speech sounds through the air. Auditory phonetics, which is also considered a branch of physiology, is the study of how speech signal is sensed in the auditory canal and interpreted by the relevant parts of the brain. In other words, it deals with how speech sounds are perceived by the listener. 3 b. c. Phonetics vs. Phonology 2. Phonology is the study or description of the distinctive sound units (phonemes) of a language and their relationship to one another. It involves studying a language to determine its distinctive sounds and to establish a set of rules that describe the set of changes that take place in these sounds when they occur in different relationships with other sounds. The subject of phonology includes the following areas: Study of the phonemic system. Phoneme sequences and syllable structure. .
