1. LI 2013 NATHALIE F. MARTIN P HONETICS AND S POKEN L ANGUAGE

2. Outline of Today’s Class Today’s objective:  Develop an ear for the individual sounds of the English language.  Discover the link between writing and sounds (or sometimes lack thereof ).  Get acquainted with the IPA chart of consonants and vowels.

3. Useful Websites Useful Websites:  Phonetic Flash Project  http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/ http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/  IPA Official Website  http://www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk/ipa/ http://www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk/ipa/

4. A Mass of Sounds Listen to these words.  How would you divide them? Into syllables? Into individual sounds?  Cat  Dog  Canine  Snoop  Snoop Doggie Dog

5. Phones For You Break up the flow of speech into ________ ________________  _______(individual ________, aka. speech sounds)  Syllables

6. Sounds of English http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/frameset.html

7. TRANSCRIPTION 1. CONSONANTS 2. VOWELS 3. GLIDES International Phonetic Alphabet

8. The IPA is a system of ________ Represent each sound of human speech with a ____ __________  Important note: Transcription = ________ ________

9. IPA Consonants Chart

10. IPA Consonants Examples

11. IPA Vowel Chart

13. IPA Vowels (examples)

14. IPA Vowels (Diphthongs)

15. IPA Glides (examples)

16. Digging Deeper For Further Information about phonetics: Linking sounds to symbols: IPA Help, SIL International http://www.sil.org/computing/speechtools/ipahelp.htm International Phonetic Association http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/ipa/ipa.html Practice transcribing: Practice exercises, Kevin Russel, University of Manitoba http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/linguistics/russell/138/p ractice/prelim.htm