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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 ).
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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.
UsefulWebsites • 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
Soundsof English http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/frameset.html
International Phonetic Alphabet Transcription Consonants Vowels Glides
International Phonetic Alphabet • The IPA is a system of ________ • Represent each sound of human speech with a ____ __________ • Important note: Transcription = ________ ________
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/ipa.html Practice transcribing: Practice exercises, Kevin Russel, University of Manitoba http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/linguistics/russell/138/practice/prelim.htm