PPT-The Sounds of Language

In this chapter   We will look at how these symbols are used to represent both the consonant and vowel sounds of English words What physical aspects of the human vocal tract are involved in the production of those sounds. Acquisition of Language II. Lecture 3. Sounds. Announcements. Be working on HW1 (due. 4/19/. 12). Review questions available for sounds & sounds of words. IPA. . sound conversion chart . available. CS 4706. Julia Hirschberg. Linguistic . Sounds. What . is the sound inventory of a language X?. How are they produced? . What sounds are . shared . by languages X and Y? Which are not?. How do particular sounds vary in context?. Laura Tomokiyo. What is language documentation?. Provides “a comprehensive record of the linguistic practices characteristic of a given speech community” (. Himmelman. 1998). Focuses on description and archiving. Phonetics is concerned with describing the speech sounds that occur in the languages of the world. We want to know what these sounds are, how they fall into patterns, and how they change in different circumstances… The first job of the phoneticians is … to try to find out what people are doing when they are talking and when they are listening to speech. We simply don’t know how language originated. . We do know that the ability to produce sound and simple vocal patterning (a hum versus a grunt, for example) appears to be in an ancient part of the brain that we share with all vertebrates, including fish, frogs, birds and. Phonetics is concerned with describing the speech sounds that occur in the languages of the world. We want to know what these sounds are, how they fall into patterns, and how they change in different circumstances… The first job of the phoneticians is … to try to find out what people are doing when they are talking and when they are listening to speech. speech sounds made when air passes from lungs through vocal tract, which shapes into different sounds based on varying the shape and size of tract through which air passes. No language takes advantage of every sound possible. E.g. VIEW. Ahmad . Baki. , RN, BSN. Hameed . Zahedi, RN, BSN, PhD in ESL. Objectives. Shedding light on the concept of . language barrier. from a linguistic point of view. Agenda. The structure of the presentation:. PED 392. Child Growth and Development. Definitions. Language. A symbolic system: a series of sounds or gestures in which words represent an idea, object or person. Literacy. The ability to construct and express meaning through reading, writing and discussing texts. Figurative language is language that communicates ideas beyond the ordinary meanings of words.. Types of figurative language are called figures of speech.. Simile. A simile makes a comparison between two things using the word like or as.. VIEW. Ahmad . Baki. , RN, BSN. Hameed . Zahedi, RN, BSN, PhD in ESL. Objectives. Shedding light on the concept of . language barrier. from a linguistic point of view. Agenda. The structure of the presentation:. http://goo.gl/KP0Z5y. . "Music, soccer, and backflips" - So Te Ro. . Southeast Asian Coalition. Welcome!. Introductions and Announcements. Let’s get to know each other:. Find a partner . (preferably from another school). Psycholinguistics – Meeting 8. At birth . we cannot comprehend speech, nor can we produce speech. Yet, . by the . age of 4 years we have learned vocabulary and grammatical rules . for creating . a variety of sentence structures including negatives, questions, . ENGLISH –THE WINDOW TO THE WORLD. English . is . the lingua-franca of the modern world. English is the language of the internet. English is the language of higher education. English is the language of international trade, tourism, politics and literature.