LI 2013 NATHALIE F. MARTIN

PHONETICS AND SPOKEN LANGUAGE

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

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 Snoop Doggie Dog

Phones For You

Break up the flow of speech into _______________________________(individual ________, aka. speech

sounds)Syllables

Sounds of English

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

TRANSCRIPTION

1.CONSONANTS2.VOWELS 3.GLIDES

International Phonetic Alphabet

International Phonetic Alphabet

The IPA is a system of ________Represent each sound of human speech with a

____ __________

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 Internationalhttp://www.sil.org/computing/speechtools/ipahelp.htm International Phonetic Associationhttp://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/ipa/ipa.html

Practice transcribing:Practice exercises, Kevin Russel, University of Manitobahttp://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/linguistics/russell/

138/practice/prelim.htm