Linguistics week 6

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Linguistics week 6

• Phonetics 3

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Aspiration

• Aspirated and unaspirated consonants
• ? is unaspirated p
• ? is aspirated ph (puff of air)
• English spit vs pit (aspiration difference)
• Compare pit vs bit
• That is a voicing difference
• Aspiration is much less important in English than
  in Chinese
• Can you explain why?

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Mandarin sounds (not yet)

• http//www.wfu.edu/moran/Cathay_Cafe/IPA_NPA_4.ht
  m

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How many words, morphemes, syllables, consonants
and vowels in the following? Count semivowels as
consonants.

1. Greenhouse
2. Red houses
3. Women
4. ??
5. Those sheep
6. ??
7. ???
8. ??
9. John drinks coffee
10. ?????

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Syllable patterns (actually this is part of
Phonology)

• With few exceptions, all syllables have exactly
  one vowel (V)
• In Mandarin, there exist 3 possible patterns
• V
• CV
• CVC, where the last C must be n or ?
• English is more flexible
• CCCVCCCC is possible, but still only one vowel

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Check table 6.2, p243
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Parameters for describing consonants

• So far (this is not complete yet) we have
• Airstream (usually the same for all consonants)
• Place of articulation
• Voicing
• Manner of articulation
• So, p is