Sounds of Today's English: Consonants and Vowels

1. 453 Chapter 2 Sounds of Today’s English

2. Making Consonants • Place of articulation • Where you make a sound • Illustration page 23 • Manner of articulation • How you make a sound • Chart page 25

3. Making Vowels • Tongue Position • Relative to roof of mouth • High, mid, low • Position of highest part • Front, central, back • Chart – Page 27

4. Vocabulary • Thongs • Diphthong • Monophthong • IPA • Phonemic Contrast

5. Kinds of Sound Change • Assimilation • Dissimilation • Elision • Intrusion • Metathesis

6. Causes of Sound Change • Substratum/Superstratum Theory • Phonological Space • Ease of Articulation • Folk Etymology • Hypercorrection • Overgeneralization

7. It sounds the same… • Phoneme • Allophone • Complementary distribution • Free variation

8. 2.1 Review Only 2.2 All 2.3 All 2.4 All 2.5 Some of each 2.6 All 2.7 All 2.8 All 2.9-11 Some 2.12 All 2.13 All 2.14-25 Some 2.26 All 2.27 Some 2.28 Skip Exercises

12. 2.5 Contrastive Sets The following sets show variation in (1) the vowel (2) the initial consonant and (3) the final consonant. Add words to complete each set. (1) [i] leak feel lead beat peel meat keyed bead [I] lick fill ___ ___ pit ___ ___ ___ [o] ___ foal ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ (2) [p] pie pooh Poe pay pain pore pill pail [n] nigh new ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ [r] rye rue ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ (3) [p] reap lip ape ripe cap sip rap lope [t] ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ [k] ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

15. 2.12 Complete the following charts by writing the phonetic symbols in the appropriate boxes to show the place of articulation. Fill in as many as you can.