I like talking to people about things, but I couldn't cope with all the admin and politics of formal teaching.
do you think that's why "fricking!" is so gratifying to say?
Well, first of all, even if it is an Americanism it can be gratifying to say. :) There are a lot of frivatives, and plosives, in swearing and I think they're both satisfying to say. But words tend to have a lot of frivatives and plosives in them anyway, partly because languages like a lot of contrast in their syllables and since all syllables are going to have vowels in them, they also favor sounds that are much less vowel-like. And by a metric called sonority, vowels have the highest while plosives and frivatives are the lowest.
What kind of instruments do phoneticians use?
On the Seeing Speech website I keep linking to, you can see little videos taken from MRI machine data. There's ultrasound data too, which shows you the shape the tongue is making. And there's electropalatography, which puts sensors on the top of a person's mouth to show which parts of the tongue touch it, how, and when. Phonetics also makes a lot of use of spectrograms, which I had to start to learn how to read in the intro phonetics class I had to take in my first year.
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Date: 2019-07-02 07:15 am (UTC)I like talking to people about things, but I couldn't cope with all the admin and politics of formal teaching.
do you think that's why "fricking!" is so gratifying to say?
Well, first of all, even if it is an Americanism it can be gratifying to say. :) There are a lot of frivatives, and plosives, in swearing and I think they're both satisfying to say. But words tend to have a lot of frivatives and plosives in them anyway, partly because languages like a lot of contrast in their syllables and since all syllables are going to have vowels in them, they also favor sounds that are much less vowel-like. And by a metric called sonority, vowels have the highest while plosives and frivatives are the lowest.
What kind of instruments do phoneticians use?
On the Seeing Speech website I keep linking to, you can see little videos taken from MRI machine data. There's ultrasound data too, which shows you the shape the tongue is making. And there's electropalatography, which puts sensors on the top of a person's mouth to show which parts of the tongue touch it, how, and when. Phonetics also makes a lot of use of spectrograms, which I had to start to learn how to read in the intro phonetics class I had to take in my first year.