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IA901 2012 Session Two

IA901 2012 Session Two. Phonetics v phonology Describing the sounds of English Teaching pronunciation. Adrian Underhill’s Phonemic Chart How useful do you think this chart is for describing the sounds of spoken English? Have you used this chart in a classroom?

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IA901 2012 Session Two

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  1. IA901 2012 Session Two • Phonetics v phonology • Describing the sounds of English • Teaching pronunciation

  2. Adrian Underhill’s Phonemic Chart How useful do you think this chart is for describing the sounds of spoken English? Have you used this chart in a classroom? Should knowledge of this chart be a prerequisite for English language teachers? 4. Do you have any sympathy for this point of view?

  3. Underhill, A. 2005 Sound Foundations : Learning and Teaching Pronunciation. 2ndEdn. Macmillan

  4. Phonetics & Phonology

  5. Phonetics & Phonology Phonetics is concerned with the way we make, transmit, and receive speech sounds. There are three main branches of phonetics: articulatory, acoustic, and auditory. Phonology relates to the sound systems of languages and concerns itself with the way sounds relate to meaning in a given language.

  6. Phonetics v Phonology Phonetics: “the study of the production of speech sounds by speakers, their perception by hearers and their acoustic properties” Phonology: “the branch of linguistics which investigates the ways in which speech sounds are used systematically to form words and utterances” Katamba, F. (1989) An Introduction to Phonology Longman. p.60

  7. Phonetics & Phonology What’s the difference between a VOWEL and a CONSONANT? How many VOWELS are there in English? How many CONSONANTS?

  8. vowels consonants continuants / sonorants Underhill, A. 2005 Sound Foundations : Learning and Teaching Pronunciation. 2ndEdn. Macmillan

  9. Underhill, A. 2005 Sound Foundations : Learning and Teaching Pronunciation. 2ndEdn. Macmillan

  10. An experiment…

  11. Four Vowels When the following vowels are produced, what happens to the position of the lips, jaw, and tongue? 1 2 3 4 i: u: æ ɑ:

  12. Four Vowels i: u: æ ɑ: i: u: æ ɑ:

  13. Another experiment…

  14. Cardinal vowels Roach, P. 2009 English Phonetics and Phonology : A Practical Course. 4thEdn. Cambridge University Press. p.12

  15. Do speakers of British English produce cardinal vowels? Roach, P. 2009 English Phonetics and Phonology : A Practical Course. 4thEdn. Cambridge University Press. p.12

  16. Vowels in British English Roach, P. (2009) English Phonetics and Phonology : A Practical Course. 4thEdn. Cambridge University Press

  17. Vowels in British English

  18. Yet another experiment • on a blank piece of paper, can you draw a human mouth in 10 seconds? • now – in the same amount of time – can you draw the inside of a human mouth?

  19. In how much detail could you label these two diagrams?

  20. uvula houses the glottis

  21. The consonants

  22. Let’s see if anyone’s still awake! Look at these words for 10 seconds: uvular labiodental dental alveolar / post-alveolar bilabial velar palatal glottal

  23. Terms used to describe place of articulation: both lips lips and teeth teeth alveolar ridge hard palate soft palate (velum) glottis uvula bilabial labiodental dental alveolar / post-alveolar palatal velar glottal uvular

  24. Are any of these terms useful for your students? uvula

  25. Underhill, A. 2005 Sound Foundations : Learning and Teaching Pronunciation. 2ndEdn. Macmillan

  26. My attempts at visual representations in the classroom

  27. uvula

  28. uvula

  29. uvula

  30. uvula

  31. uvula

  32. uvula

  33. uvula

  34. Tactile experiences? uvula

  35. Manner of articulation

  36. Place and manner of articulation : an experiment How would you describe the difference between the way it feels to produce each of the following pairs of phonemes? /m/ and /n/ /p/ and /m/ /v/ and /ð/ /t/ and /s/ /l/ and /n/ /ʃ/ and /tʃ/ 7. /ŋ/ and /n/ 8. /ŋ/ and /g/ 9. /w/ and /m/ 10. /h/ and /s/ 11. /j/ and /w/ 12. /j/ and /r/

  37. fricatives affricates plosives nasals laterals approximants

  38. plosives nasals affricates laterals fricatives approximants

  39. Place and manner of articulation : an experiment Does the terminology we just looked at make description easier for you? Do you think it also makes it easier for the learner? /m/ and /n/ /p/ and /m/ /v/ and /ð/ /t/ and /s/ /l/ and /n/ /ʃ/ and /tʃ/ 7. /ŋ/ and /n/ 8. /ŋ/ and /g/ 9. /w/ and /m/ 10. /h/ and /s/ 11. /j/ and /w/ 12. /j/ and /r/

  40. Place and manner of articulation Roach, P. 2009 English Phonetics and Phonology : A Practical Course. 4thEdn. Cambridge University Press. p.52

  41. /m/ and /n/ /p/ and /m/ /v/ and /ð/ /t/ and /s/ /l/ and /n/ 6. /ʃ/ and /tʃ/ 7. /ŋ/ and /n/ 8. /ŋ/ and /g/ 9. /w/ and /m/ 10. /h/ and /s/ 11. /j/ and /w/ 12. /j/ and /r/

  42. In the classroom

  43. How are you? I’m fine thank you. There are brown cows all around. Why are we doing this strange exercise?

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