Phonology

Katie BurnsTitle III Resource Teacher

Introductions

Intonation.mp4

Phonetics vs. Phonology• Turn and talk

Phonetics vs. Phonology

Turn and talk sentence starter:Phonetics and Phonology both __________.Phonetics is ________, but Phonology is ____.Phonology is different than phonetics because ____________.An example of phonetics is _______, while an example of phonology is __________.

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Phonetics

• The study of how speech sounds are produced, what their physical properties are, and how they are interpreted.

Phonology

• The study of the distribution of sounds in a language and the interactions between those sounds.

Video

• Allophones, Utterances and Prosody

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO29J3krsfs

Stress• Word Stress: Work in pairs to determine which syllable

receives primary stress. Place a large dot over that syllable.

catcatsupcataloguecathedralcaterpillarcatastrophecategorical

Does it get any harder?

• “Mary had a little lamb”- Changing the intended meaning using intonation and stress.

• Think of another song lyric where the intonation could be changed using different pitch movements and stress. Create at least two meanings using different intonations. Create a visual representation of the intonation.

INTONATION

Allophones and Phonemes

• Transcribe the following words in IPA

stop, little, hunter

• Discuss allophones of the same phoneme vs. allophones of different phonemes and minimal pairs.

Accents and Language Transfer Issues

• Partner Read “Foreign Accents.”• Discuss in groups examples you have heard

your students make due to a language transfer issue.

Definitions you need to know…Provide examples of each

• Allophones: One of a set of non-distinctive realizations of the same phoneme

• Phoneme: A class of speech sounds identified by a native speaker as the same sound.

• Minimal Pair: Two words that differ only by a single sound in the same position and that have different meanings.

How is this applicable?

• So how does phonology come into play with our ESL Students?

• An age old debate: Should accent be corrected?

References

• Bergmann, Anouschka, Kathleen Currie Hall, and Sharon Miriam Ross. Language files: materials for an introduction to language and linguistics. 10th ed. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2007. Print.