Chapter 1 Phonetics: A “Sound” Science * Phonetics as a field of study * Historical phonetics- involves the study of sound changes in words * There is a constant mutation over time in the pronunciation of words in all languages. * Between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries‚ there was a marked evolution in the pronunciation of English long vowels; this change in vowel pronunciation is known as the “Great Vowel Shift” * Physiological phonetics- involves
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Introduction Phonetics and phonology (both from the Greek root phono- ’sound ’) are two branches of linguistics that deal primarily with the structure of human language sounds. Phonetics is concerned with how sounds are produced; transmitted and perceived (we will only look at the production of sounds). Phonology is concerned with how sounds function in relation to each other in a language. In other words‚ phonetics is about sounds of language‚ phonology about sound systems of language
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Articulatory Phonetics We will spend the next few days studying articulatory phonetic: what is involved in the actual movement of various parts of the vocal tract during speech. (Use transparancy to discuss organs of speech; oral‚ pharyngeal and nasal cavities; articulators‚ lungs and diaphragm). All speech sounds are made in this area. None are made outside of it (such as by stomping‚ hand clapping‚ snapping of fingers‚ farting‚ etc.) Theoretically‚ any sound could be used
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be studied from two points of view: the phonetic and the phonological.1 Phonetics is a linguistic science which studies and describes the sounds of speech in a language‚ the way humans make‚ transmit and receive speech sounds. Phonetics can be divided into articulatory phonetics which studies the way the vocal organs are used to produce speech sounds‚ there is acoustic phonetics which studies the physical properties of speech sounds‚ and auditory phonetics which studies the way people perceive speech
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When I want to show (-ed) pronunciation‚ I’d start with explaining the voiced and voiceless sounds. Please Ss say: fffffffff. Put your hand in front of your mouth like me (I put my hand in front of my mouth) what do you feel? Now say again: ffffffff. Where do you produce this sound? Ss: We put our upper teeth on our lower lip. T: yes excellent. We call /f/ a voiceless sound. Now say: vvvvvvvv. Please put your hand on your throat like me. ( I put my hand on my throat) Now say: vvvvvvvvv. What
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Phonetics and Phonology (definitions‚ activities‚ branches‚ phoneme‚ IPA‚ RP) Phonetics – the science which studies the characteristics of human sound making‚ especially those used in speech. It is a branch of linguistics concerned with the study of speech sounds and their production‚ transmission‚ reception‚ description‚ and representation by written symbols. – Major activities: description classification transcription – it can be
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INTRODUCTION TO PHONETICS COMDIS 210: Survey of Communication Disorders Definition of phonetics (Shriberg & Kent‚ 1982) • The study of the perception and production of speech sounds (phonemes). • The study of how speech sounds are produced and what their acoustic properties are. – Articulatory phonetics (concerned with how sounds are formed) – Acoustic phonetics (concerned with the acoustic properties of sounds) • Clinical phonetics involves the application
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Pronunciation Sounds and spelling There are 26 letters in the English alphabet but there are 44 sounds in the English language. This means that the number of sounds in a word is not always the same as the number of letters. The word ’CAT’ has three letters and three sounds but the word ’CATCH’ has five letters but still only three sounds. If we write these words using phonemic symbols‚ we can see exactly how many sounds they have. CAT is written /k æ t/ CATCH is written /k æ ʧ/ In ’CATCH’
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Edward Chiang Professor Shaffer ENC1102 12 September 2011 Summary Assignment In “Animism and the Alphabet”‚ David Abram‚ a journalist in the Environmental Ethics and a founder of the Alliance for Wild Ethics (AWE)‚ asserts that through the evolution of the human language‚ there is a widening gap in the relationship between humanity and nature. Through the examples of pictographic systems and hieroglyphics‚ Abram suggests that our earliest forms of writing stemmed off of our ecological origins
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Progress test 2 due to 28th of February 2012 Phonetics 1) Transcribe the following sentences. Mark the stressed words and use weak forms where appropriate: ’She can ’swim ’faster than ’I can. (contrast) /’ʃi: kən ’swɪm ’fɑ:stə ðən ’aɪ kən/ ’She’s from ’Scotland. ’Where ’are ’you from? (contrast) /’ʃi:z frəm ’skɒtlənd. ’weər ɑ: ’ju: frəm?/ ’Sally’s been ’trying to ’send you an ’e-mail. /’sælɪz bin ’traɪɪŋ tə ’send ju ən ’i:meɪl/ ’Alastair ’claimed he was ’selling the ’company
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