Linguistics week 4

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Linguistics week 4

• Phonetics 2

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Phonetics the sounds of language

• Not language-specific
• Describes sounds produced in any or all languages
• Phonology describes the sound patterns in
  particular languages, like English or Chinese
• For example
• This is how to make the sound p
• The consonant cluster /pr/ is OK in English, not
  in Chinese

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Phones sound segments

• When we know a language, we can segment an
  utterance into phones
• We can do this even though there is no break
  between phones
• Cat has 3 phones
• But we don