Reference book: Phonetics and Phonology, by Peter Roach
1. bead
2. bid
3. bed
4. bad
5. bard
6. bud
7. bird
8. bared
9. bayed
0. beard
(Try and make the students say their phone numbers...)
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- how many letters are there in the English Alphabet?
26
- how many sounds are there in English?
44
- what's the difference between Phonetics, Phonemics and Phonology?
* Phonetics is the study of the sounds (any sounds)
* Phonemics are the symbols (help with a study of a particular language)
(both of them are segmental aspects of pronunciation)
* Phonology is the science (supra-segmental = intonation/features of connection speech)
- what are the different articulators we use to produce sounds?
nasal tract, hard palate,
upper teeth, oral tract, soft palate,
alveolar ridge, tongue, uvula,
lower lip,
lower teeth, pharynx wall,
larynx
- how is the phonetic chart arranged?
http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/IPA_chart_(C)2005.pdf
- what is an allophone?
different ways in which the same sound can be pronounced (like/silly/pull)
- which sound has a "clear" and "dark" form?
(at the end = dark / beginning and middle = little "l")
- what are the 2 "semi-vowels"? Why are they called this?
"y" and "w"
- what is a glottal stop and where does it occur? How is it transcribed?
it's the pause before a syllable.
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START PRACTICING THE TRANSCRIPTIONS!!!
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