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1.1 Phonetics - The Sounds of Language - Sounds Segments

Phonetics is the study of speech sounds that occur in languages around the world. It involves segmenting speech into individual sound units and describing the physical properties and production of these sounds, as well as how listeners perceive them. Phonetics analyzes words into their constituent sounds, which speakers of a language can do even if they don't know how words are spelled. While no two speakers produce words identically, listeners understand each other because they share the same linguistic knowledge and can ignore non-linguistic differences in speech.

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1.1 Phonetics - The Sounds of Language - Sounds Segments

Phonetics is the study of speech sounds that occur in languages around the world. It involves segmenting speech into individual sound units and describing the physical properties and production of these sounds, as well as how listeners perceive them. Phonetics analyzes words into their constituent sounds, which speakers of a language can do even if they don't know how words are spelled. While no two speakers produce words identically, listeners understand each other because they share the same linguistic knowledge and can ignore non-linguistic differences in speech.

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PHONETICS

THE SOUND OF LANGUAGE


When you know a language,
you know the sounds of that
language, and you know how
to combine those sounds into
words.

BUS
PHONETICS IS CONCERNED WITH
DESCRIBING THE SPEECH SOUNDS
THAT OCCUR IN THE LANGUAGES
OF THE WORLD.

WHAT THESE SOUNDS ARE


HOW THEY FALL INTO PATTERNS
HOW THEY CHANGE IN DIFFERENT
CIRCUMSTANCES
SOUND SEGMENTS
SOUND SEGMENTS

WHAT IS PHONETICS?

IT IS THE STUDY OF
SPEECH SOUNDS.

To describe speech
sounds, it is necessary
to know what an
individual sound is
and how each sound
differs from all others.
SOUND SEGMENTS

PHYSICALLY, THE WORD IS ONE CONTINUOUS
SOUND, BUT YOU CAN SEGMENT IT.

Speech utterances can be segmented into
individual units.
SOUND SEGMENTS

Throat-clearing= a continuous
sound but not a speech sound =
not segmented into the sound of
a speech
SOUND SEGMENTS


The ability to analyze a word into its individual
sounds does not depend on knowledge of how
the word is spelled.

NOT KNOT

Who can know how to separate the words?

Everyone knowing the language.
SOUND SEGMENTS

Speakers can separate KEEPOUT into two words
because they know the language.


Children learning a
language – not
knowing where the
break occurs.

MOTHER: “hold on.”

CHILD: “I am holing don. I
am holing don.”
SOUND SEGMENTS

Word boundary misperceptions have
changed the form of word historically.

Apron = napron

A napron = an apron

AMBIGUOUS PHRASES AND SENTENCES
grade A gray day

It’s hard to recognize It’s hard to wreck a nice


speech. beach.
The sun’s rays meet. The sons raise meat.
SOUND SEGMENTS

Written or oral, everyone who
knows a language knows how to
segment sentence into words
and words into sounds.
SOUND SEGMENTS
IDENTITY OF SPEECH SOUND


We are able to understand the individual
words in an utterance in spite of the fact that
no two speakers ever say the same word
identically.
SOUND SEGMENTS
IDENTITY OF SPEECH SOUND


SPEAKERS UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER
BECAUSE THEY KNOW THE SAME LANGUAGE.

Our linguistic knowledge, our mental
grammar, makes it possible to ignore non-
linguistic differences in speech: coughing,
clicks (tsk), sneezing…
SOUND SEGMENTS
IDENTITY OF SPEECH SOUND


ACOUSTIC PHONETICS = the study of the
physical properties of the sounds themselves
SOUND SEGMENTS
IDENTITY OF SPEECH SOUND


AUDITORY PHONETICS = the study of how the
listeners perceive these sounds
SOUND SEGMENTS
IDENTITY OF SPEECH SOUND


ARTICULATORY PHONETICS = the study of
how the vocal tract produces the sounds of
language.

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