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    Chapter 3: The

    sounds of
    Language
    Lecturer: Nguyen Le Bao Ngoc
    What to study?
    • Phonetics
    – Consonants
    • Voiced and voiceless sounds
    • Place of articulation
    • Manners of articulation
    – Vowels
    • Diphthongs
    – Subtle individual variation
    – Cultural notes
    What is the problem here?
    There are no spaces between
    sounds as there are between
    words
    Phonetics
    • Phonetics study how speech sounds are
    made
    • International Phonetics Alphabet, or
    IPA
    • This chapter looks at how English
    sounds are represented
    Phonetics: 3 branches of phonetics
    • Articulatory phonetics: the study of how
    speech sounds are made (or articulated)
    • Acoustic phonetics: the study of the
    physical properties of speech
    • Auditory phonetics: (perceptual
    phonetics) the study of the perception,
    via the ear, of speech sound
    Consonants and vowels
    • Consonants are articulated via
    obstruction in the vocal tracts
    • Vowels are produced with a free flow
    of air
    Consonants
    • Voiced and voiced less
    • Place of articulation
    • Manner of articulation
    Example: a voiced bilabial stop
    /b/
    Voiced and voiceless sounds
    1. When the vocal folds are
    spread apart, the air from
    the lungs passes between
    them with no obstruction,
    producing voiceless
    sounds
    2. When the vocal folds are
    together, the air from the
    lungs repeatedly pushes
    them apart as it passes
    through, with a vibration
    effect, producing voiced
    sounds
    A consonant chart
    Place of articulation
    Bilabials
    Labiodentals
    Dentals
    Alveolars
    Palatals
    Velars
    Glottals
    Manner of articulation
    A consonant chart
    Glottal stops and flaps
    Glottal stops: [ʔ]
    • Uh-uh
    • Harry Potter
    • Bottle/ butter
    Flaps: [ɾ]
    • Latter/ladder
    • metal/medal
    • Writer/rider
    • Plato/playdough
    Vowels
     Vowels are produced with a relatively
    free flow of air.
     Vowels are typically voiced.
    Vowels: short vowels
    /ɪ/: it, hit
    /e/: set, get
    /æ/: hand, man
    /ʌ/: sun, fun
    /ʌ/: enough, mother, other
    /ɒ/: hot, shot
    /ʊ/: good, cook
    Vowels: long vowels
    /i:/: keep, need
    /u:/: should, food
    /ɜ:/: fur, stir
    /ɔ:/: bored, more
    /ɑ:/: car, far
    Vowels

    unrounded
    rounded
    Diphthongs
    Sounds that consist of a combination of
    two vowel sounds
    Diphthongs
    • /ɪə/: hear, near
    • /eə/: bear, stair
    • /ʊə/: moor, poor
    • /eɪ/: play, stay
    • /aɪ/: high, nice
    • /ɔɪ/: toy, boy
    • /əʊ/: go, boat
    • /aʊ/: house, now
    Examples
    • Tottenham Hotspur
    • Greenwich
    • Edinburgh
    • Salisbury
    • Gloucester
    • Sainsbury’s
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?
    v=9q7VjLVU8Ec

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