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PHONETICS

PHONETICS. What is phonetics?. It’s a discipline in linguistics which deals with the transcription of sounds. The units are called phonemes. There are three kinds of phonemes: Vowels. Consonants. Diphthongs (union of two vowels in the same syllable). .

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PHONETICS

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  1. PHONETICS

  2. What is phonetics? • It’s a discipline in linguistics which deals with the transcription of sounds. • The units are called phonemes. • There are three kinds of phonemes: • Vowels. • Consonants. • Diphthongs (union of two vowels in the same syllable).

  3. What phonetics exercises will be important for the exam? • Identify phonemes with graphemes (letter or letters which represent a phoneme in ordinary writing). • -ed endings. • Plural and 3rd person singular –s endings.

  4. VOWELS

  5. DIPHTHONGS

  6. CONSONANTS • There are twotypes of consonants: voiced and unvoiced, dependingonwhetherthe vocal cordsvibrateornot. • UNVOICED: / p /, / f /, / t /, / θ/, / tʃ /, / k /, / ʃ / • VOICED: / b /, / v /, / d /, / ð /, / dʒ /, / z /, / ʒ /, / g /, /h /, /m/, / n /, / ŋ /, / r /, / l /, / w /, / j /

  7. Unvoiced consonants

  8. Voicedconsonants 1Theconsonants in thisslide are similar totheoneswefind in Spanish. Theirgraphemiccorrespondanceis regular.

  9. Voicedconsonants 2

  10. -ed endings • -ed endings can be found in the past simple or past participle of REGULAR verbs. • They can be pronounced in three different ways: • / t / after an unvoiced consonant. • / d / after a voiced consonant or a vowel. • / ɪd / after a dental consonant, namely, / t / or / d /

  11. -s or -es endings • -s or -es endings can be found in regular plurals or in the 3rd person singular of the present simple. • They can be pronounced in three different ways: • / s / after an unvoiced consonant. • / z / after a voiced consonant or a vowel. • / ɪz / after a sibilantconsonant, namely, / s /, / ʃ /, / tʃ / or / z /

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