{"id":120,"date":"2024-09-15T12:16:54","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T10:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/lei\/?page_id=120"},"modified":"2025-01-29T12:54:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T10:54:21","slug":"3-phonetics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/toc\/3-phonetics\/","title":{"rendered":"3. Phonetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A key aspect of any language is its physical reality in the world: how we transmit linguistic signals from one person to another. This chapter explores this physical reality by looking at the body parts used for language, how they move to create a linguistic signal, and how linguists categorize, describe, and notate these physical properties so they can record and access information about a language.<\/p>\n<p>When you\u2019ve completed this chapter, you\u2019ll be able to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>identify the locations and functions of parts of the human anatomy relevant to the articulation of spoken and signed languages,<\/li>\n<li>provide articulatory descriptions of phones, and<\/li>\n<li>identify the meanings of many common symbols from the International Phonetic Alphabet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Contents<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/lei\/toc\/3-phonetics\/3-1-language-modality\/\">3.1 Language modality<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/lei\/toc\/3-phonetics\/3-2-speech-articulators\/\">3.2 Speech articulators<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/lei\/toc\/3-phonetics\/3-3-describing-consonants-place\/\">3.3 Describing consonants: Place<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/lei\/toc\/3-phonetics\/3-4-describing-consonants-manner\/\">3.4 Describing consonants: Manner<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/lei\/toc\/3-phonetics\/3-5-describing-vowels\/\">3.5 Describing vowels<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/lei\/toc\/3-phonetics\/3-6-the-international-phonetic-alphabet\/\">3.6 The International Phonetic Alphabet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/lei\/toc\/3-phonetics\/3-7-syllables\/\">3.7 Syllables<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A key aspect of any language is its physical reality in the world: how we transmit linguistic signals from one person to another. This chapter explores this physical reality by looking at the body parts used for language, how they move to create a linguistic signal, and how linguists categorize, describe, and notate these physical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-120","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1756,"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/120\/revisions\/1756"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}