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Phonetics 1
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- 1What's the difference between phonetics and phonology?Phonetics is the systematic study of speech sounds (how they're made and heard). Phonology is the study of speech sounds of a language (and its organisation etc).
- 2List the 3 subfields of phonetics (and detail what they are)1. Articulatory phonetics: study of the organs of speech and the way they move to produce various sounds.
2. Acoustic phonetics: study of sound waves, their properties and the way they are transmitted.
3.Auditory phonetics: study of the perception or decoding by ear and brain. - 3Describe the relationship between sound and symbol/ speech and writing• Speech: the natural/biological way in which linguistic information is communicated
• Writing: much later and artificial invention
• Speech: fast and interactive but rapidly fading
Writing: permanent and storage of information
• All written languages have a preceding spoken form
not all spoken languages have a written form
- e.g. Squamish (spoken in Vancouver, Canada) was first documented in 1880s but the orthography or spelling system only came about in 1960s - 4What is Transparent Orthography?one-to-one grapheme-to-phoneme correspondence, e.g. Spanish, Italian
- 5What is Opaque Orthography?variable grapheme-to-
phoneme relationship, e.g. English, French
- The number of letters does not equal to the number of sounds
- English spelling
▪ knight originally pronounced as /knɪçt/
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