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Phonetics, part 2. October 12, 2012. One Thing. The Final Exam schedule has been posted for this class: Monday, December 17 th , from 3:30-5:30 pm Location TBD. The Last Quick Write. The Last Quick Write. The Last Quick Write. The Last Quick Write. English Phonemes.
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Phonetics, part 2 October 12, 2012
One Thing • The Final Exam schedule has been posted for this class: • Monday, December 17th, from 3:30-5:30 pm • Location TBD
English Phonemes Familiar IPA symbols, same sound: [p] ‘pot’ 7. [r] ‘rot’ 12. [m] ‘ma’ [b] ‘bought’ 8. [f] ‘fought’ 13. [n] ‘not’ [t] ‘tot’ 9. [v] ‘vote’ 14. [l] ‘lot’ [d] ‘dot’ 10. [s] ‘sot’ 15. [w] ‘walk’ [k] ‘kit’ 11. [z] ‘zit’ 16. [h] ‘hot’ [g] ‘got’
English Phonemes Familiar IPA symbols, different sounds: 17. [j] ‘yacht’ “yod” 18. [i] ‘heed’ 19. [e] ([ej]) ‘hayed’ ([ej] = a “diphthong”) 20. ‘hod’ 21. [o] ([ow]) ‘bode’ ([ow] = a “diphthong”) 22. [u] ‘who’d’ • A diphthong is a phoneme that combines two phones.
English Phonemes Unfamiliar IPA symbols, for consonants: 23. ‘thought’ “theta” 28. ‘chop’ 24. ‘though’ “edh” 29. ‘jot’ 25. ‘shot’ “esh” 26. ‘vision’ “ezh” 27. ‘ring’ “engma”
English Phonemes Unfamiliar IPA symbols, for vowels: 30. ‘bid’ “cap-I” 31. ‘bed’ “epsilon” 32. ‘bad’ “ash” 33. ‘bud’ “wedge” 34. ‘foot’ “upsilon”
More Diphthongs 35. [aj] ‘bide’ 36. [aw] ‘bowed’ 37. [oj] ‘Boyd’ • The textbook also mentions one more: • 38. ‘about’ “schwa” • only appears in unstressed syllables. • But we’re not going to use this one! • We will use instead. • Also -- the following alphabetic symbols do not represent any English sound: • c x q y
Stress • Stress makes a syllable sound more prominent. • (due to increased articulatory effort) • Stress may be denoted by an accent over the vowel in the stressed syllable. • Examples of stress contrasts: • “contrast” • (N) • (V) • “insult” • (N) • (V)