Phonetics

Phonetics | Spice of English Grammar

• Seems interesting (blu3mo)

• In other words, it is the study of how speakers produce speech (articulatory phonetics), the physical properties of sound propagation (acoustic phonetics), and how listeners perceive speech (auditory phonetics).

  • I see (blu3mo)
• Classification of Language Sounds: Types of Language Sounds, Segmental and Suprasegmental Sounds | Spice of English Grammar

https://ocw.u-tokyo.ac.jp/lecture_files/engin_01/1/notes/ja/A2-Phonetics.pdf

• University of Tokyo Department of Mathematical Engineering〜〜(blu3mo)
  • Is this more focused on acoustic phonetics?
  • It talks about Japanese vowels
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    • “u” is not /u/, but /ω/, huh (blu3mo)
      • Maybe it’s because you don’t have to purse your lips as much
        • It reminds me of when I was told to purse my lips more for the “u” sound in Chinese Pronunciation, I guess it’s similar to that~ (blu3mo)(blu3mo)
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    • So, the “ra” sound is /r/?
    • The consonants don’t blend together, indeed~ (blu3mo)
  • It seems that assimilation is also within the scope of phonetics (blu3mo)
    • Well, it’s difficult to completely distinguish “writing” and “speech”, right?
      • They seem to interact with each other

  • Phonological comparison between Japanese and other languages

    • Sounds very interesting (blu3mo)
    • Hawaiian language
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      • “San Francisco” becomes “kapalakiko”
      • All the sounds t, d, th, s, z, zh, ts, dz, k, g are all replaced with “k”, I don’t understand the meaning from my perspective
    • Japanese
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      • Japanese also has all sounds replaced with “a”, so it’s similar to Hawaiian language, I guess (blu3mo)
  • Accent
    • I’ve heard that Japanese has pitch accent and English has stress accent (blu3mo)
    • The rules for accent changes in Japanese, they seem really complicated
      • Changes that span multiple words