Manner of Articulation

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Manner of Articulation

• LIN 3201

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4 Parameters for Describing Sounds

• Airstream Mechanism
• How/From where air is initiated, direction of
  airflow
• State of the Glottis
• Vocal fold state - wide open, vibrating that
  affects airstream
• Manner of Articulation
• How air is shaped in airstream
• Place of Articulation
• Where air is shaped in airstream

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Manner of Articulation

• What we do to the airstream
• to constrict, obstruct or shape it
• producing different types
• of sound qualities

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The airstream as a 4 dimensional tube

1. Vertical Dimension how close articulating
   organs get to one another
2. Transverse Dimension is the sound obstructed
   centrally or laterally (which side?)
3. Time momentary obstruction or maintainable
   obstruction
4. Longitudinal place or site of obstruction

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Stops (Plosives)

• Air is obstructed by stopping air at place of
  articulation
• Greatest degree of obstruction
• Maintainable central obstruction
• Oral Nasal Stops
• Oral Stops Velum blocks nasal cavity air lows
  through mouth only p, d, k
• Nasal Stops Velum is lowered air flows through
  mouth and nose m, n

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Gimson Cruttenden, 1994
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Fricatives

• Air is obstructed less than a stop
• Air flows through articulators so that friction
  is created in articulation
• Maintainable stricture type
• Examples f, v, s z

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