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Lecture 3

Lecture 3. Describing Consonants & Vowels. Describing Consonants. Four questions for consonants: 1. Where is the sound made? (Place of Articulation) 2. How is the sound made? (Manner of Articulation) 3. What is happening at the nose? (Nasal or Oral)

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Lecture 3

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  1. Lecture 3 Describing Consonants & Vowels

  2. Describing Consonants Four questions for consonants: 1. Where is the sound made? (Place of Articulation) 2. How is the sound made? (Manner of Articulation) 3. What is happening at the nose? (Nasal or Oral) 4. What is happening at the larynx? (Voiced or voiceless)

  3. Place of Articulation- fill in the rest on your own • Labial b, p, m • Labio-dental f, v • Interdental • Alveolar t, d, s, z, l, r, • Alveo-palatal • Palatal • Velar • Glottal

  4. Manner of Articulation Stops/Plosives: airstream is completed stopped at some point e.g. [p], [b] Fricatives: airstream is partially obstructed causing friction in the the airflow e.g. [f], [s] Affricates: a combined effect of a stop + fricative e.g. [č] in cheese

  5. Manner of Articulation: Lateral : there is some obstruction in the mouth but not enough to cause turbulence in the airflow e.g. [l] Approximants: little or no obstruction in the airstream e.g. [j] in yellow [w] in whale [r] in read

  6. International Phonetic Alphabet • One alphabet = one sound • Can be used to described the speech sounds of any human language • Online Resource: Peter Ladefoged

  7. Every consonant has a name The name tells you how it is made. The 4 question gets you the name [p] - voiceless bilabial (oral) stop [m] - (voiced) bilabial nasal (stop) [s] - voiceless alveolar (oral) fricative

  8. Describing Vowels Four questions for vowels • How high is the tongue? • High, mid, low (vowel height) • Which part of the tongue is involved? • Front, central, back • What’s happening with the lips? • Rounded or unrounded • What’s happening with the tongue root? • Tense or lax

  9. Every vowel has a name too • [i] • High front tense (unrounded) vowel • [u] • High back tense (rounded) vowel

  10. Diphthongs and triphthongs [ai] as in buy [ai ] as in fire [au] as in cow [au ] as in hour [ɔi] as in boy [ɔi ] as in coir

  11. E-learning exercises • Please register to gain access to these priceless resources for learning • You may subscribe to both PJJ and the on-campus course. • Tests/exercises with answers are available in the on-campus course to help you along the journey.

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