PHONETICS AND SPOKEN LANGUAGE LI 2013 NATHALIE F

PHONETICS AND SPOKEN LANGUAGE LI 2013 NATHALIE F. MARTIN

Outline of Today’s Class Today’s objective: Develop an ear for the individual sounds of the English language. Discover the link between writing and sounds (or sometimes lack thereof ). Get acquainted with the IPA chart of consonants and vowels.

Useful Websites: Phonetic Flash Project http: //www. uiowa. edu/~acadtech/phonetics/ IPA Official Website http: //www. langsci. ucl. ac. uk/ipa/

A Mass of Sounds Listen to these words. How would you divide them? Into syllables? Into individual sounds? Cat Dog Canine Snoop Doggie Dog

Phones For You Break up the flow of speech into ____________ _______(individual sounds) Syllables ____, aka. speech

Sounds of English http: //www. uiowa. edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/frameset. html

International Phonetic Alphabet TRANSCRIPTION 1. CONSONANTS 2. VOWELS 3. GLIDES

International Phonetic Alphabet The IPA is a system of ____ Represent each sound of human speech with a __________ Ø Important note: Transcription = ________

IPA Consonants Chart

IPA Consonants Examples

IPA Vowel Chart

IPA Vowel Chart

IPA Vowels (examples)

IPA Vowels (Diphthongs)

IPA Glides (examples)

Digging Deeper For Further Information about phonetics: Linking sounds to symbols: IPA Help, SIL International http: //www. sil. org/computing/speechtools/ipahelp. htm International Phonetic Association http: //www. arts. gla. ac. uk/ipa. html Practice transcribing: Practice exercises, Kevin Russel, University of Manitoba http: //www. umanitoba. ca/faculties/arts/linguistics/russell/138/p ractice/prelim. htm