Which sound is described in this spectrogram

[Ha Anh T]

Dear Catherine,

I wonder which sound is described in place 1, 4, 10, and 11.

I am still finding it a bit hard to decipher sounds based on their spectrogram.

Thank you very much.

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[Catherine Lai]

Hi Ha Anh,

This spectrogram was actually created by Rebekka, but from the general spectral characteristic, I’d say:
(1) is a fricative, (4) is a vowel-approximant-vowel sequence,
(10) is a vowel with glottalisation at the end (11) is probably an affricate (i.e. a plosive + fricative).

But I’ll have to check with Rebekka what they actually are!

We didn’t do much spectrogram reading in this course, so we’d only ask you to recognise broad categories of speech sounds (with more easily recognisable acoustic features!).

cheers,
Catherine

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