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Phonetics and Phonology (ENG)



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Lesson-39
USING PRAAT - IV

At the end of this section, the students will be able to
• EXPLAIN sonorants in terms of acoustics.
• RECOGNIZE AND ANALYSE the features of nasals, glides and liquids acoustically.

Topic-195: Sonorants and Their Formants
Sonorants are vowel-like sounds (nasals and glides. These sounds are called sonorants because they have formants (remember their acoustic correlates. But they are different from vowels because they generally have lower amplitude therefore, they behave like consonants. Record the following sequences for our experimentation on sonorant sounds /ama/ - /ana/ -
/aŋa/ - /wi/ - /ju/. Having recorded these sequences, now start exploring the features of these sounds like the measurement of FF, F and also try to compare them with vowels. Do you see any systematic patterns Try to answer the question before moving to the next topic.

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