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Phonetics Introduction

This document provides an introduction to phonetics and discusses its three main levels: articulatory phonetics, acoustic phonetics, and auditory phonetics. Articulatory phonetics studies how speech sounds are produced through the positions and movements of the vocal organs. Acoustic phonetics examines how speech sounds are transmitted through sound waves. Auditory phonetics analyzes how speech sounds are perceived by the listener. The document outlines the key organs involved in speech production and notes that the same sounds can be represented by different letters in the English writing system.

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Phonetics Introduction

This document provides an introduction to phonetics and discusses its three main levels: articulatory phonetics, acoustic phonetics, and auditory phonetics. Articulatory phonetics studies how speech sounds are produced through the positions and movements of the vocal organs. Acoustic phonetics examines how speech sounds are transmitted through sound waves. Auditory phonetics analyzes how speech sounds are perceived by the listener. The document outlines the key organs involved in speech production and notes that the same sounds can be represented by different letters in the English writing system.

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Phonetics

;an introduction

Compiled by: Ritika Sinha


Levels of language structure
Language is studied at different levels
PHONETICS

3. It studies how sound waves are received by the hearer


Phonetics is divided into three types:
● based on the production of speech sounds
(articulatory phonetics),
● based on transmission of speech sounds
(acoustic phonetics)
● based on perception of speech sounds
(auditory phonetics)
Production of Reception of
speech sounds Transmission speech sounds

feedback

speaker Listener

Production transmission perception


Articulatory Acoustic Auditory
phonetics phonetics phonetics
Articulatory Phonetics:
❖ It is a subfield of phonetics that studies articulation and ways
that humans produce speech.
❖ It undertakes the study of the organs of speech; the positions
and movements of the lips, tongue, vocal tract, and other
speech organs for the production of sounds
❖ To a certain extent, it also deals with the sound system of a
language.
Organs of Speech
Speech articulators
The main speech articulators are the tongue, the upper lip,
the lower lip, the upper teeth, the upper teeth ridge (alveolar
ridge), the hard palate, the velum (soft palate), the uvula ,
the pharyngeal wall, and the glottis(space between the vocal
cords).
The airstream necessary for the production of speech sounds
is produced by the lungs.
Did you know?
Note: we are dealing and studying the sound system of english language (british english), and
not the english alphabet
Example:
Identify the /k/ sound in the words below and note the different alphabets
representing the same sound.

Kid K

C
Cat

Back

School
ck

ch
/k/
Sound
Queen Q

Unique que
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