Phonetics: The Sounds of Language Jan-March,2013

1. Phonetics: The Sounds of Language Jan-March,2013 Pam Allen pamela.allen@cms.k12.nc.us Stacy Feldstein stacy.feldstein@cms.k12.nc.us Mariana De Luca Mariana.deluca@cms.k12.nc.us

2. Objective Participants will identify the sounds of American English, the symbols that represent them and their particular characteristics by listening to a PowerPoint Presentation and analyzing language in groups.

3. Name that Phoneme Substitution • An Arabic student asks, “Where is my baber?” • A Chinese student says, “Watch out for broken grass!” • A Serbian student says, “I vant to eat.” • A Czech student says, “I leave in Yanuary” • A Farsi student says, “When will you co back?” • A French student says, “I will stay with zem.” • A German student says, “I sink so.” • A Japanese student says, “It is bery good”. • A Korean student says, “I drive a zeep.” • A Spanish student says, “He is chort” • A Filipino Student says, “It is my pavorite” • A Turkish student asks, “Do I get a stigger?” • A Vietnamese student says, “I got two book.”

4. Phonetics The study of speech sounds Mom: “Hold on” Toddler: “I’m holing don, I’m holing don.”

5. Manner of Articulation

6. Voiced and Voiceless Sounds

7. Identity of Speech Sounds • Languages differ to a greater or lesser degree in the inventory of speech sounds that words are built from. • Our linguistic knowledge makes it possible to ignore non linguistic differences. (Background noise, interference)

8. Nasal and Oral SoundsWhat distinguishes the bilabial voiced /m/ from /b/? m b

9. Other phonetic features Activity: /t/ /s/= Describe place and manner of articulation What distinguishes them?

10. Practice • With a partner complete exercises 6 on page 262 (except h and i) and 12 on page 264, from “An Introduction to Language” Share your responses with a different partner. • Test questions: Listen to the questions 8, 9, 10,11,12,13,14,14