《大学英语专业语言学.pptVIP

Lecture 2 Phonetics Language is primarily vocal. The primary medium of human language is sound. Linguists are not interested in all sounds, but in speech sounds----sounds that convey meaning in human communication. What is phonetics ? ----A branch of linguistics which studies the characteristics of speech sounds and provides methods for their description, classification and transcription, e.g. [p] bilabial, stop. Scope of phonetics Articulatory phonetics----from the speakers’ point of view, “how speakers produce speech sounds”. Auditory phonetics----from the hearers’ point of view, “h