I enjoy this week's reading a lot because it is related to my APP's topic: A Major-features Contrastive Study of Articulatory Phonetics between Standard American English and Mandarin Chinese. Besides, I’m also thankful to this reading for it helps me gain more understanding of phonetics and phonology on the need of my papers.
Chapter 3 is focused on phonetics while chapter 4 has major attention on phonology. At the beginning of chapter 3, it talks about the correspondence between writing and speaking. Some languages like English, for example, do not pronounce every sound straightforwardly according to its spelling. And then getting into the study of sounds, which is also called “phonetics.” To create differences among consonants language can exploit the features of voicing, aspiration, manner of articulation, and manner of articulation. Vowel sounds can be identified in terms of their articulatory properties: tongue height, tongue backness, tenseness, rounding, lengthening, nasalization, and tone. Each feature is addressed in text respectively. However, not every feature is applied to distinguish one sound from another in every language. For exmaples, English does not employ aspiration to its consonant system, and tenseness is not engaged in Chinese vowel phonetics.
While chapter 3 is centered on how human vocal apparatus work together in order to make sounds, Chapter 4 is a study of the sound systems of language. Firstly, it gives a focus on receiving part. How children decipher the code of distinctive sounds in their language, and what stages they might pass through. Then the distributions of phonemes and allophones are discussed. And then the author brings phonological rules and syllable structure to next step. Phonological process or rules can depend on stress and syllable structure. The interaction of morphology and phonology is addressed at the end.
Chapter 3 is focused on phonetics while chapter 4 has major attention on phonology. At the beginning of chapter 3, it talks about the correspondence between writing and speaking. Some languages like English, for example, do not pronounce every sound straightforwardly according to its spelling. And then getting into the study of sounds, which is also called “phonetics.” To create differences among consonants language can exploit the features of voicing, aspiration, manner of articulation, and manner of articulation. Vowel sounds can be identified in terms of their articulatory properties: tongue height, tongue backness, tenseness, rounding, lengthening, nasalization, and tone. Each feature is addressed in text respectively. However, not every feature is applied to distinguish one sound from another in every language. For exmaples, English does not employ aspiration to its consonant system, and tenseness is not engaged in Chinese vowel phonetics.
While chapter 3 is centered on how human vocal apparatus work together in order to make sounds, Chapter 4 is a study of the sound systems of language. Firstly, it gives a focus on receiving part. How children decipher the code of distinctive sounds in their language, and what stages they might pass through. Then the distributions of phonemes and allophones are discussed. And then the author brings phonological rules and syllable structure to next step. Phonological process or rules can depend on stress and syllable structure. The interaction of morphology and phonology is addressed at the end.
Glad that this chapter helps a lot to your APP writing. How is everything going for your APP sofar?
ReplyDeleteI'm still working on my chapter two but trying to finish it soon...=D
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