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Phonology | Phonetics, Speech Sounds, Articulation | Britannica
Phonology, study of the sound patterns that occur within languages. Some linguists include phonetics, the study of the production and description of speech sounds, within the study of phonology. Diachronic (historical) phonology examines and constructs theories about the changes and modifications
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Phonetics - Trills, Articulation, Vowels | Britannica
Phonetics - Trills, Articulation, Vowels: A trill results when an articulator is held loosely fairly close to another articulator, so that it is set into vibration by the airstream. The tongue tip and blade, the uvula, and the lips are the only articulators than can be used in this way.
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Phonetics - Secondary Articulations | Britannica
Phonetics - Secondary Articulations: When an approximant articulation occurs at the same time as another articulation is being made at a different place in the vocal tract, the approximant is said to form a secondary articulation. There are special terms for some of these possibilities.
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Phonetics - Vowel Sounds, Articulation, Acoustics | Britannica
Phonetics - Vowel Sounds, Articulation, Acoustics: Vowels traditionally have been specified in terms of the position of the highest point of the tongue and the position of the lips. Figure 2 shows these positions for eight different vowels.
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Phonetics - Stops, Articulation, Acoustics | Britannica
Phonetics - Stops, Articulation, Acoustics: Stops involve closure of the articulators to obstruct the airstream. This manner of articulation can be considered in terms of nasal and oral stops. If the soft palate is down so that air can still go out through the nose, there is said to be a nasal stop.
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Phonetics - Vowel Formants, Acoustics, Articulation | Britannica
Phonetics - Vowel Formants, Acoustics, Articulation: The resonant frequencies of the vocal tract are known as the formants. The frequencies of the first three formants of the vowels in the words heed, hid, head, had, hod, hawed, hood, and who’d are shown in Figure 3.
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Phonetics - Phonology, Rules, Speech | Britannica
Phonetics - Phonology, Rules, Speech: In the lexicon of a language, each word is represented in its underlying, or basic, form, which discounts all of the alternations in pronunciation that are predictable by phonological rules.
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Phonetics - Chomsky-Halle, Features, Speech | Britannica
Phonetics - Chomsky-Halle, Features, Speech: Some of the binary features proposed by Chomsky and Halle are listed in Table 1. The first group comprises major class features, because these features are required for dividing sounds into classes such as vowels, consonants, and semivowels.
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phonetics summary | Britannica
phonetics, Study of speech sounds. It deals with their articulation (articulatory phonetics), their acoustic properties (acoustic phonetics), and how they combine to make syllables, words, and sentences (linguistic phonetics).
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Phonetics | Definition, Types, Examples, & Facts | Britannica
phonetics, the study of speech sounds and their physiological production and acoustic qualities. It deals with the configurations of the vocal tract used to produce speech sounds (articulatory phonetics), the acoustic properties of speech sounds (acoustic phonetics), and the manner of combining sounds so as to make syllables , words, and ...
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