Introduction to Linguistics: Phonetics 1

Lecture 3. Prof. Futrell begins discussing phonetics, focusing on the articulatory features of consonants.

[ky-vinhmai]

The questions professor Futrell propose today are:
| Articulatory Phonetics | - How people move their articulators to produce linguistic sounds
| Acoustic Phonetics | - The properties of the waveforms of linguistic sounds


| Larynx | - Creates the buzzing sounds
| Vocal Tract (tongue, mouth, nasal cavity) | - Constricts airflow, to modify buzzing sounds

Vocal Folds:
When open - the person is breathing
When closed - the person is talking and creates a vibration

| Articulators | - part of the vocal anatomy which can move to filter the air coming through the larynx to produce the sounds of a language
These are….
Lips (p, b, m)
Teeth
Tongue
Alveolar Ridge (Ta, Da, Sa)
Hard Palate
Velum
Uvula
Pharynx
Glottis ( The vocal folds )
| Articulatory Gestures | - Articulators involved in movements

p, b, m: bilabial
f, v: labiodental
th: dental
t, d, s, z, n: alveolar
ch, j, sh: postalveolar
k, g: velar
n, m: nasal

| Phone | - is a distinct discrete speech sound
| Place of articulation | - indicates which articulators are involved.

| Manner of articulation | - indicates how the articulators are moving
- | Stop Consonant | - involves total obstruction of airflow
- | Nasal Consonant | - Redirects air into the nasal cavity
- | Fricative Consonant | - Involves continuous, turbulent airflow with friction.

| Voicing | - Indicates the state of the vocal cords during the production of a sound
- | Voiced | - Vocal cords are closed and vibrating
- | Unvoiced | - Vocal cords are open

Professor Futrell then starts making gibberish noises at the end of the video.

[lookingforstars]

I´m studying phonetics next semester. I´m too high right now and now I can taste sounds. Perfect.
Good class. Thanks for all.

[fernandocortes]

1:05 articulators 10:00 sonidos 15:28 s{imbolos 18:40 voiced and unvoiced 26:51 Intl Phonetic alphabet 30:35

[hotsaut]

Thank you Futrell for this material and I want to ask my students to re-represent this material based on this:, Kevin (Two Kinds of Phonetics and Vocal Tract and Larynx and Anatomy of Larynx), Vincent and Darren (Articulators), Dewa (Phonetics of English Consonants), Fauzan (Practice Analysing English Consonants), Luky and Boy (All English Possible Consonants), Rayhan (stop consonants), Fanny (All possible Consonants), Gracia, Betrix (Fricative Consonants), Risma, Pranita, Jesline (All possible consonants), Syfa and Lusiana (Nasal Consonants), Zevania and Sarlita (All possible consonants), Darren (Trills and Flaps), Bella, Kalita (Approximants and Lateral Approximants)

[c.moriarty]

Amazing lesson. A tiny correction at 53:09 - "caro" means expensive in Spanish ("cara" means face and also expensive)

[c.c.]

Thank you, professor Futrell for lesson presentation. It's tremendously helpful.

[sinnathuraisrivas]

In Tamil, the alphabet do not represent sounds/phonemes. Tamil alphabet represent places of articulation. In practise the various possible phonemes of each of the PoA are liberally used with context. Your video is very interesting to compare, contrast and expand on the scientific explanation of the mechanic, as described in the Tamil grammar Tholharpiyam..

[jasonferman]

I just found a hidden gem on YouTube, I study linguistic❤

[bonob]

the hindi alphabet is organized by these articulators. The "letters" are really just individual sounds(phonemes?) so the alphabet goes something like:. K, Kh, G, Gh / Ch, chh, J, jhh / T, Th, D, Dh / P, ph, b, bh. etc

[elanalottner]

Thank you very very much! I've been feeling lost in my lectures for a few weeks now. Hopefully completing this video will make it easier to follow along in my lectures.

[amandalima]

Thank you, Professor. Your lessons are quite amazing!

[إقرأ-ضش]

Your explanation is wonderful. I follow you from Iraq ❤

[Jay_in_Japan]

19:25 "... not in any language you currently speak"
Me, an Abkhaz speaker:
_You underestimate my power!_

[NayibttA]

I love your classes!
I just would like to point out that "caro" is an adjective in Spanish that means expensiveand we use it for masculine nouns and "cara" is a noun that means face or expensive (cara) an adjective for feminine nouns.
I really appreciate your class, I'm a student in Spanish teaching as a second or foreign language but now I'm fascinated by linguistics.

[beroal]

There is another way to check whether a phone is nasal. Close your nostrils with your fingers and try to produce the phone. If this changes the phone dramatically or makes it impossible to produce, the phone is nasal. For example, if you try to produce [m] with your nostrils closed, you'll produce something closer to [b].

[TündeVirágos-Tóth]

Awesome, Hungarian words were pronounced perfectly!😊

[Alamin-lkti]

Nice 0:15 n 0:38 n 04:04 n4:53 n 6:47 n 7:28 n 8:30

[buhaytimog]

Just a correction for tagalog that is "ngipin" means teeth. The 'ng' only happens to be the first letter not the last one.

[onetwothreeenglishschool]

what are the book references you've used for your class?

[juanduran]

Back in the day, when I studied English Phonetics, "phones" were called "phonemes". Am I missing something? Has this linguistic term changed since then? Help!