SLTD04 Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics Ear Training / Phonetic Transcription

m n ŋ p b t d k g f v θ ð s z ʃ ʒ h tʃ dʒ w  j l post-alveolar labio-dental post-alveolar palatal velar glottal bilabial dental alveolar nasal stop fricative affricate (central) approximant lateral (approximant) m n ŋ p b t d k g f v θ ð s z ʃ ʒ h tʃ dʒ w  j l

phonetically similar sounds Voicing contrast Voiceless /p/ ~ voiced /b/ Voiceless /s/ ~ voiced /z/ Voiceless /S/ ~ voiced /Z/ Place contrast Alveolar /s/ ~ post-alveolar /S/ Alveolar /z/ ~ post-alveolar /Z/ Vowel height contrast: /i/ ~ /I/ phonetically similar sounds Each pair of sounds differs in terms of a single phonetic feature More difficult to discriminate than sounds differing in two or more features, eg /p/ ~ /v/, /s/ ~ /dZ/, /d/ ~ /m/

slISp zlIZb blIZ plIS Slisp blis plISIb SlIsp blIZIb sisISp 1 2 3 4 5 6 blis 7 plISIb 8 SlIsp 9 blIZIb 10 sisISp

11 plizibz 12 bIzIz 13 plis 14 bIsIs 15 plIZIps

ship sea zip measure Sue fish nurse zoo shoe scissors peas

sIp di dIp mEdə zIp du fIs nt su zu dIdId pis ship sea zip measure Sue du fish fIs nurse nt zoo su shoe zu scissors dIdId peas pis