Introduction to Linguistics - Lecture 5

Lecture Five, 14th of November 2007

Sounds in Speech and Revision


1. Introduction
2. Learner's Diary
3. Tasks and Quizzes
4. Evaluation
5. References


1. Introduction

Content of the lecture was a revision of the previous lectures, especially phonetics and phonology.


2. Learner' Diary

It is possible to describe sound of speech in two ways

- Phonetics (Study of Speech Sounds)
- Phonology (Function and Patterning of Sounds)

The system to produce a sound is parted in three components:

- Lungs
- Vocal cords in the larynx (Adam ´s apple)
- Vocal tract: oral and nasal cavities


Phonology

Phonology is a subfield of linguistics which studies the sound system of a specific language, it encodes the words. Important terms are phonemes and allophones.


Parts of Phonetics

- Articulatory domain: IPA, Source - Filter Model
- Acoustic domain: Speech Waveform
- Auditory domain: Anatomy of the ear


3. Tasks and Quizzes


No tasks and homework, very obliging.


4. Evaluation


The revision of the last session was good, the best thing was, that there is no homework.


5. References


http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/~gibbon/Classes/Classes2007WS/ITL/index.html