Phonetics, part 2 October 12, 2012

One Thing The Final Exam schedule has been posted for this class: Monday, December 17 th, from 3:30-5:30 pm Location TBD

The Last Quick Write

English Phonemes 1.[p] ‘pot’7. [r] ‘rot’12. [m] ‘ma’ 2.[b] ‘bought’8. [f] ‘fought’13. [n] ‘not’ 3.[t] ‘tot’9. [v] ‘vote’14. [l] ‘lot’ 4.[d] ‘dot’10. [s] ‘sot’15. [w] ‘walk’ 5.[k] ‘kit’11. [z] ‘zit’16. [h] ‘hot’ 6.[g] ‘got’ Familiar IPA symbols, same sound:

English Phonemes Familiar IPA symbols, different sounds: 17. [j]‘yacht’“yod” 18. [i]‘heed’ 19. [e] ([ej])‘hayed’([ej] = a “diphthong”) 20. ‘hod’ 21. [o] ([ow])‘bode’([ow] = a “diphthong”) 22. [u]‘who’d’ A diphthong is a phoneme that combines two phones.

English Phonemes Unfamiliar IPA symbols, for consonants: 23. ‘thought’“theta”28. ‘chop’ 24. ‘though’“edh”29. ‘jot’ 25. ‘shot’“esh” 26. ‘vision’“ezh” 27. ‘ring’“engma”

English Phonemes Unfamiliar IPA symbols, for vowels: 30. ‘bid’“cap-I” 31. ‘bed’“epsilon” 32. ‘bad’“ash” 33. ‘bud’“wedge” 34. ‘foot’“upsilon”

More Diphthongs 35. [aj] ‘bide’ 36. [aw] ‘bowed’ 37. [oj] ‘Boyd’ The textbook also mentions one more: 38. ‘about’ “schwa” only appears in unstressed syllables. But we’re not going to use this one! We will use instead. Also -- the following alphabetic symbols do not represent any English sound: cxqy cxqy

Stress Stress makes a syllable sound more prominent. (due to increased articulatory effort) Stress may be denoted by an accent over the vowel in the stressed syllable. Examples of stress contrasts: “contrast” (N) (V) “insult” (N) (V)