Phonetics - Anthropology

Major classes obstruents: non-nasal stops,fricatives & affricates sonorants: everything else: nasalstops, approximants, vowels coronals: alveolars, palatoalveolars,palatals anteriors: labials, alveolarsSyllable structure [no]: onset = [n], rhyme = [o] [pro]: onset = [pr], rhyme = [o] [strɪŋ]: onset = [str], nucleus = [I],coda = [ŋ] (rhyme = nucleus + coda)Syllabic consonants listen [lɪsn̩] friar [frajr̩] rhythm [rɪðm̩] Rachel [retʃl̩] text follows common practice andwrites: [lɪsən, frajər, rɪðəm, retʃəl]Tone Cantonese• si ‘poem’: high level tone [˥ ]• si ‘to try’ : mid level tone [ ˧ ]• si ‘matter’: low level tone [ ˨ ]• si ‘time’: extra low tone [ ˩ ]• si ‘to cause’: mid->high rising tone [ ˧˥ ]• si ‘city’: low->mid rising tone [ ˨˧ ]6