week 2

Invitations to Linguistics II

Week 2

Bojia

1. Sound phonetics

2. Sounds phonology

3. Word morphology

4. Words/sentence syntax

5. Meaning semantics

6. Meaning in a context pragmatics

Phonetics

It studies speech sounds, including the

production of speech.

how they are made, transmitted and received;

the classification of speech sounds, connected speech,etc.

Acoustic phonetics, forensic phonetics

It studies the rules governing the structure, distribution, and sequencing of speech sounds How speech sounds in a language form patterns and how these sounds are used to convey meaning

the internal structure of words Morphemes–the minimal units of meaning

Derivation vs. inflectional morphemes

e.g

globaliza-tion, inter-collegiate, notic-ed, walk-ing

principles of forming and understanding correct sentences

there are rules to specify word order, sentence organization, word classes and other sentence elements

Semantics

how meaning is encoded in a

language

Synonyms

sameness or similarity

of meaning

e.g

autumn -fall

flat -apartment Polysemy

same word may have more than one meaning e.g

收拾

the study of meaning in context

dealing with the particular utterances in particular situations

The interpretation of words may be influenced by social contexts of language performance e.g

The door is open!?

I’m sorry!

Review

1) general linguistics:

A. phonetics:the study of speech sound

B. phonology:the study of sound patterns

C. morphology:the study of the formation of words

D. syntax:the study of the formation of sentences

E. semantics:the study of meaning

F: pragmatics:the study of meaning in the context

of language use

Linguistics is not the only field concerned with language, it’s

Phonetics is the scientific study of all aspects of speech. It is concerned with the way in which language is encoded in the sounds producible by the human speech organs, but also with non-linguistic information in the speech signal (e.g sex and identity of the speaker)

Anatomy and

physiology

Articulation

Hearing and

perception

Phonology

Sociology and anthropology

Acoustics Linguistics Psychology Engineering,

computer science

Forensics Speech

therapy Phonetics

Speech production mechanisms Speech organs

?The nature of sound

The basis of most of the speech sounds is the controlled outflow of air from the lungs Speech sound = perturbed airflow

Sound wave: movements of particles through a medium (e.g ear) by compression and rarefaction

The middle ear converts and amplifies the air particles movement. The inner ear “analyses” and transmits the signals to the brain

When you breathe in, muscles

in the chest wall contract, lifting the ribs and pulling them outward. The diaphragm at this time moves downward enlarging the chest cavity. Reduced air pressure in the lungs causes air to rush into the lungs.

The larynx is important as a source of sound and as an articulator (where the vocal folds are) Glottis(声门) =the V-shaped opening between the vocal folds, controlled by the arytenoid cartilages (杓状软骨组织）

Voicing source of speech sounds =vocal folds vibrating, caused by the Bernoulli effect, not voluntary muscle control.

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