Chapter 1
Sounds that were imitated from natural sounds.
The features we gained when we transitioned from two feet and the reconstruction of the vocal tract.
Physical Adaptation Source
Sounds that feel like stopping the air/ feels like an explosion.
Stop- Plosives
i, ɪ, e, ɛ, æ
Front Vowels
A person, place or thing is a...
noun
Idea sound came from emotional circumstances.
Pooh-Pooh Theory
the idea that humans are genetically equipped to acquire language.
innateness hypothesis
f, v, θ, ð, s, z, ʃ, ʒ, h, caused by friction.
Fricatives
Dropping a sound or syllable in a word.
Elison
Study of speech sounds
Phonetics
Language was given by the gods.
The Divine Source
Being able to talk about an object in the future, present, and past without it be sure of it.
Displacement
begin as a stop and released as a fricative. (t,d)
Affricatives
adding a nasal quality to a sound segment before a nasal sound
Nasalization
The study of how speech sounds are made or articulated.
Articulatory Phonetics
Used to charm with musical notes and rhythm.
Musical Source
no inherent connection between the units (sounds, words) used in a language and their meanings.
arbitrariness
air is forced through your nose as you make the sound - -m, n, ng
Nasal
When two sound segments occur in sequence and some aspects of one segment is taken or copied.
Assimilation
the study of speech sounds in language.
Phonology
language was composed during strenuous group efforts.
Yo-he-ho theory
θ
Theta
Move tongue to or from a vowel (w,j)
Glides
A pair of words that differ by only a single sound and are recognized by speakers as different words. i.e. bat/cat or hare/dare.
Minimal sets
each single meaning- distinguished sounds in a language. "/" represent phonemes.
Phonomes