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Phonetics & Phonology
An Introduction
Sarmad Hussain
Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing,
NUCES, Lahore, Pakistan
sarmad.hussain@nu.edu.pk
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Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Pragmatics
Semantics
Syntax
Morphology
Phonology
Phonetics
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Overview
Phonetics
Phonology
Computational Phonology
Phonetics
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What is Phonetics ?
Study of human speech as a physical
phenomenon
Articulation
Acoustics
Perception
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Articulatory Phonetics
Study of how speech sounds are produced by
human vocal apparatus
Anatomy of vocal organs
Air stream Mechanism
Voicing
Articulation
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Anatomy of Vocal Organs
[2]
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Air-stream Mechanisms
Pulmonic
Glottic
Velaric
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Pulmonic Sounds
Air flow is directed outwards towards the oral
cavity
Pressure built by compression of lungs
English [p], [n], [s], [l], [e]
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Glottic Egressive Sounds
Air flow is directed outwards towards the oral
cavity
Pressure built by pushing up closed glottis
Georgian [p’], [t’], [k’]
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Glottic Ingressive Sounds
Air flow is directed inwards from the oral
cavity
Pressure reduced by pulling down closed
glottis
Hausa, Sindhi [ɓ,ɠ ]
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Velaric Sounds
Air flow is directed inwards from the oral
cavity
Pressure reduced by forming velaric and
alveolar closure and pulling down tongue
clicks
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Articulatory Phonetics
Study of how speech sounds are produced by
human vocal apparatus
Anatomy of vocal organs
Air stream Mechanism
Voicing
Articulation
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Bernoulli Effect
Air pumped from the lungs applies pressure on closed glottis
High pressure opens vocal cords
High velocity air flow creates low pressure region pulling vocal
cords together again
Process is repeated, producing vibrations in the vocal cords
[3]
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Voicing
Whisper
Creak
bhBreathy Voice
ph
Aspirated
bVoice
pVoicelessness
[4]
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Articulation
Manners of Articulation
Places of Articulation
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Consonants – Manners of Articulation
Lateral
Trill
Tap
mNasal
jApproximant
dʒtʃAffricate
Fricative
pStop
[4]
Flap
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Places of Articulation
[2]
Labial
Alveolar
Dental
Labio-
dental
Palatal
Velar
Uvular
Pharyngeal
Laryngeal
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Consonants – Places of Articulation
[9]
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Consonants – Places of Articulation
Multiple Places of Articulation
Glottal
Pharyngeal
Uvular
Velar
dʒʃPalatal
Retroflex
Alveolar
Dental
Labio-dental
Bilabial
[4]
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Consonantal Sounds
[10]
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Vowel – Features
Low / High
Back / Front
Round
Nasal
Long
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Vowel – Minimal Pairs
Bag Big (English)
/bæg/ /bɪg/
Beat bit
/bit/ /bɪt/
Boot bait
/but/ /bet/
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/a/ Vocal Tract Outline
[11]
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Vocalic Inventory
ɒɑaLow
ʌæHigher-low
ɔʌœƐLower-mid
ΩɚəEMean-mid
oɤø=öeHigher-mid
ʊƗɪLower-high
uɯɨ=ʉy=üiHigh
RoundedUnroundedRoundedUnroundedRoundedUnrounded
BackCentralFront
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Vocalic Quadrilateral
[12]
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Diphthongs
Combination of two vocalic sounds
English: [aj] I, eye [aj]
[aw] cow [kaw]
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Gemination of Consonants
Double/long consonants
English: “misspell”, “unknown”
Urdu “ê 6”,“ 6”
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What is Phonetics ?
Study of human speech as a physical
phenomenon
Articulation
Acoustics
Perception
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Periodic Sine Wave
Period
Time to complete one cycle (sec)
Frequency
Number of cycles per second (Hertz)
Amplitude
Maximum displacement of a periodic wave (dB)
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Complex Periodic Waves
Sinewaves contain a single frequency
Complex waves contain multiple frequency waves
added together
Complex periodic waves contain only Sine waves at
base (fundamental) frequency (F0) and integral
multiples of F0 (Fourier’s Theorem)
F0
Amplitude
Time
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Resonance
Response of a system is not constant for
signals at all frequencies. The frequency
which gives largest response is called
Resonance (frequency).
F
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Sound Wave
Sound waves are formed by longitudinal movement
of particles creating high and low pressure regions
called compressions and rarefactions
Graph of pressure at each point in time
1 2 3 4
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Acoustic Phonetics
Source-Filter Model
Source
Filter
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Source-Filter Theory: Filter
Response curve with tongue in neutral position
Resonances are called Formants (F1, F2, F3, …)
[15]
F2
F3
F1
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Source-Filter Theory: Source
Waveform and spectrum of the glottal pulse
[15]
Time
Amplitude
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Source-Filter Theory
Combining the two results in results in spectrum of
short vowel ‘ə’ (schwa)
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Spectrogram
A spectrogram is a time-frequency-amplitude graph
representing sound
“ a bab” “a dad” “a gag”
[16]
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Spectrogram
[17][16]
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What is Phonetics ?
Study of human speech as a physical
phenomenon
Articulation
Acoustics
Perception
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Speech Perception
Acoustic signal is highly variable but perception is
very stable (invariant)
How do map physical variance to perceptual
invariance?
Intrinsic vs. extrinsic normalization
Categorical perception
Articulatory Invariance - recreation of articulatory gestures
Acoustic Invariance - stable regions in speech within
articulatory variability
…?
Phonology
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What is Phonology?
Study of how sounds interact in various languages
(phonetics conceptual representation)
Segmental phenomena
Phonemic Inventory and Allophony
Sound-change rules and ordering
Supra-segmental phenomena
Syllabification
Prominence
Tones
Intonation
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Phoneme?
Mental concept representing a physical sound
Many to many mapping between phoneme and a
phone within a language
English /t/
aspirated in “tunafish”
unaspirated in “starfish”
dental before labio-dental
flapped in “buttercup”
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Phonological Features
Phoneme = set of features that are true at a given time for a
particular phonemic unit (phonological features) (Auto-
segmental theory)
Values of features can by unary or binary ( +/- for
present/absent)
[18]
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Phonological Features
Contrastive function:
Each phoneme differs from others in at least one
feature
Descriptive function:
Accurately describes phonetic nature of a sound
(may include redundant, non-contrastive features)
Classificatory function:
Explains and allows generalizations and common
phonological processes
[18]
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English Consonant Features
[18]
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English Vowel Features
[18]
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Phonological Rules
Humans are lazy so compromise articulation to
reduce effort
Compromise in Articulation changes the sound
Constituents of a phonological rules are
Phonemes to be modified due to a rule
Conditioning context in which the rule has to be fired
Change that occurs in a sound after the rule has been fired
Rules are sometimes ordered in a language
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Types of Phonological Rules
Assimilation
Addition of features due to neighboring phonemes
n [+bilabial] / __ [+bilabial, +voiced, +stop]
Dissimilation
Deletion of features due to neighboring phonemes
[7]
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Types of Phonological Rules
Insertion / Deletion
Addition or deletion of an entire phone
Metathesis
Change order of phonemes
prescribe => perscribe
ask => aks
[7]
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Syllable
A syllable is a unit of sound composed of
A central peak of sonority (usually a vowel), and
Consonants that cluster around this central peak
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Syllable Structure
Syllable structure of Urdu word ‫ن‬ † /pɑkɪst̪ɑn/
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Syllabification
Syllabification is the process of dividing
words into syllables
Nuclear Projection
Maximal Onset Principle
Sonority Sequencing Principle
Template based Matching
Templates: V, CV, CVC, CVCC
Direction of largest template application: RTL, LTR
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Prominence
Syllable(s) in a word may be more prominent
than others
Prominence can change meaning
Spanish:
término, 'end' (noun), termíno, 'I'm finishing'
terminó, 'she/he finished’
English
‘ob.ject, ob.’ject
‘con.tent, con.’tent
Syllable vs. stress timed languages
Final heavy syllable is stressed, no secondary stress
Sensitive to segmental “quantity” or moras
Every odd syllable is stress, First has primary stress
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Intonation
You are going!
You are going.
You are going?
Intonation carries linguistic meaning, e.g. emotion,
intention, etc.
Realized primarily through variation of F0 over a
sentence
Multiple theories of how intonation is computed and
realized, e.g. Pierrehumbert (TOBI), IPO, Fujisaki,
etc.
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Computational Phonology
Letter-to-sound rules (?)
Regular, heuristic, statistical
Sound change rules
FST
Rule base
Syllabification algorithm
Template or sonority based algorithm
Stress-assignment algorithm
Stress-assignment algorithm
Intonation assignment algorithm
Rule-based algorithm – based on syntactic parse (?)
Corpus based (Machine Learning) algorithm
Other corpus based approaches
Thank you
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References
1. http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-language-map.htm
2. http://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/Spring_2001/ling001/phonetics.html
3. http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/linguistics/russell/138/sec5/phonatio
.htm
4. http://web.uvic.ca/ling/resources/ipa/
5. http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/speech/phonetics/phonetics/airstream_laryngeal
/vot.html
6. http://www.indiana.edu/~hlw/PhonUnits/consonants2.html
7. http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~xflu/201/phonology.pdf
8. http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/IPA%20in%20Unicode
9. http://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/Summer_2003/ling001/lecture4.html
10. http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/International%20Phonetic%20Al
phabet
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References
11. http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Haskins/MISC/ASY/VOWELS/ah.html
12. http://www.sil.org/mexico/ling/glosario/E005ei-VowelsChart.htm
13. http://people.deas.harvard.edu/~jones/cscie129/nu_lectures/lecture3%20/
formants1.gif
14. http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/linguistics/russell/138/sec4/formant
s.htm
15. http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/linguistics/russell/138/sec4/src-
filt.htm
16. A Course in Phonetics by Peter Ladefoged
http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonant
s/course/contents.html
17. http://web.uvic.ca/ling/resources/ipa/
18. Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology by Clark and Yallop
http://ifla.uni-stuttgart.de/~jilka/teaching/intro1/i3_features.pdf

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