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Phonology - Duquesne University
Handout for Psy 598-02, summer 2001 PhonologyPhonology is the study of the sound system of language. It is the study of the widevariety of sounds in all languages, of the basic units of sound in a particular language,and of the regularities and rules that govern pronunciation of observations about the sounds of language:1. the sounds of words are made by blowing air through the throat, mouth, and/ornose2. speech is a continuous stream, but we hear separate speech sounds3. the same sound recurs in different words (though often spelled differently)4. the sounds of speech can be analyzed into smaller units5. the sounds of speech will vary from one context to anotherWhat linguists infer from these observations: Phonologists pay attention to the structure of the vocal tract, and the articulation ofsounds by the vocal apparatus.
Packer Phonology 3 The IPA can be used to describe the wide variety of sounds used in all the world’s languages. However, each language uses a …
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