Phonetics – Class 2

CD 233

Lisa Lavoie

Announcement

You will submit HW 3 by midnight on

Saturday and I will give you feedback

Then you should study your symbols

and take Quiz 1 on the honor system.

Quiz 1 will be available from Saturday 1

am to Monday midnight for you to take

whenever is convenient.

Today’s agenda

Review consonants and symbols

Make “minimal pairs”

Review homework assignments

Listen to Harry Potter stars speak

American

Review vowels using poetry

Intuitive symbols for consonants

p b t d k g

m n

f v s z h

l r w

Challenging consonants

ŋ “ng” (engma)

θ “th” in “thin” (theta)

ð “th” in “the” (eth)

ʃ “sh” elongated “s” (esh)

ʒ “ zh” z with tail

tʃ “ch” as in chick

dʒ “j” as in Joe

j “y” as in yellow

ʔ glottal stop

Which consonant for underlined?

Measure Bath

Singer Bathe

Juan York

Region Hawai’i

Uh-oh Ankle

What consonant symbols to use?

acquittal beauty crimson

amateur bureaucracy compassion

aquarium chimpanzee cultural

astonish chromium digestion

What consonants? Part 2

snickers coupon jog, major

youth mutual wrangle

crunchy natural measure

crunchy tether wry

What consonants? Part 3

Egyptian nonchalant pathology

gestation omniscient quantify

Hercules orthodox rebellious

mingle pasteurized weather

Minimal pair or minimal set

A way of proving that a consonant or vowel

makes a difference in meaning

Use same frame & fill in different Cs or Vs

Sort of like rhyming with kids: big, pig, dig

But the sounds can be in any position as long

as it’s the same position in every word set

Important for trickier sounds, either/ether

Make minimal pairs for a few sounds

Some frames to play with

Add consonants to make English words

that are minimal pairs/sets

__ o __ u

__ ʌ t __ ɪ ʃ

p i __ l æ__

s e __ ɚ b ɪ __ i

Vowel Symbols

Variation in English centers on vowels

Fewer letters of alphabet to begin with

So more symbols to master

Review symbols on blackboard

English Vowel Quadrilateral

The extreme, or “point,” vowels

i u

æ ɑ

Vowels and diphthongs of English

14 different vowels in English

Vowels (monophthongs) have a single

sound quality throughout

3, 4 or 6 diphthongs (depending)

Diphthongs are a single vowel unit that

glides between two approximate sound

qualities

Diphthongs

3 true diphthongs

aɪ pie

aʊ pow

ɔɪ poi

Sometimes called diphthongs

eɪ pay

oʊ po (the Teletubbie)

ju pew

Try these vowels

Vampires and mosquitoes agree: blood

is good food

The white dove dove out of the nest.

We live near the live broadcast site.

The girl with the bow took a bow.

Calling on Limericks for help

http://childrenspoetryarchive.org/solr-

search/Three%20Limericks

What do you already know about

limericks?

Anyone have a favorite limerick?

What’s a limerick?

Funny little poem with 5 lines

Tells a funny story

Line 1 sets the scene/introduces

character (8 syllables)

Line 2 says more (8 syllables)

Lines 3 and 4 build tension (6 syllables)

Line 5 gives outcome (8 syllables)

Limerick 1…

A flea and a fly in a flue

Were caught, so what could they do?

Said the fly, “let us flee”

“Let us fly,” said the flea

So they flew through a flaw in the flue

Limerick 2…

There once was a pauper named Meg

Who accidentally broke her leg

She slipped on the ice

Not once, but thrice

Take no pity on her, I beg

Limerick 3…

A mouse in her room woke Miss Dowd

Who was frightened and screamed very

loud

Then the happy thought hit her

To scare off the critter

She sat up in bed and meowed

Limerick 4…

There was a young hunter named

Shepherd

Who was eaten for lunch by a leopard

Said the leopard, “Egad!

You’d be tastier, lad

If you had been salted and peppered”

Limerick 5…

There was a young lass from Whittier

Who thought she would look kinda

prettier

If she got a tattoo

Of an entire zoo

And all we can do now is pity her

Write your own limerick

Remember that lines 1, 2, 5 rhyme

And that lines 3 and 4 rhyme

Keep ‘em clean

Homework

Questions on HW1?

Read through HW2

“Orthography” is fancy term for standard

spelling (“straight” writing just like an

orthodontist makes straight teeth)

Let’s read and transcribe (1)

fear gear wear

meat sweat great

tough cough dough

Let’s read and transcribe (2)

perk cork work

chef shoe sure

who whoa white

Harry Potter Stars

Speaking American in 2010….

Who has the best American accent?

http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2010/11/17/h

arry-potter-cast-american-talk-must-

watch-video/

More Fun with Vowels!

Let’s look at the vowel examples on the

green sheet

Be sure you have key examples for

yourself on the sheet

We’ll practice with a variety of vowels

and words

Building minimal sets

Use these vowels:

i, ɪ, e, ɛ, æ, u, ʊ, o, ɔ, ɑ, ɝ, ʌ f ____ d

g ____ n

l ____ d

sk ___ n

b ___ rd

Building minimal sets, 2

Use these vowels:

i, ɪ, e, ɛ, æ, u, ʊ, o, ɔ, ɑ, ɝ, ʌ

t ____ nt

s ____ t

r ____ t

r ____ bd

sp ___ t

w ___ d

Building minimal sets, 3

Use these diphthongs and any onset

(beginning) consonant you would like:

aɪ aʊ ɔɪ ____ d

____ n

____ m

____ b

____ l

____ t

What vowels are in these words?

Straight

Bread

Filled

Bring

Lapse

Pink

Beer

Taco

Push

Raw

Sword

Costume

Literary devices with Cs and Vs

Alliteration: repeat first consonants of

words (often found in tongue twisters)

Consonance: repeat the final

consonants of words

Assonance: repeat vowels in words that

are close to each other; can be subtle

and hard to spot, “internal” rhyme

Edgar Allen Poe “The Bells”

Hear the mellow wedding bells - Golden

bells! What a world of happiness their

harmony foretells!

… From the molten-golden notes

At the melancholy menace of their tone,

Every sound that floats from the rust

within their throats … is a groan

Assonance in poetry

Adrienne Rich

Stir the nerves; Letters from the dead;

Skeletons and petals

Sylvia Plath

Strips of tinfoil winking like people

e.e. Cummings

On a proud round cloud in white high night

Assonance in lyrics

Eminem “Criminal”

Fire at the private eye hired to pry in my

business

Will Smith “Miami”

Dominican women with cinnamon tans

Thin Lizzy “With Love”

I must confess that in my quest I felt

depressed and restless

Assonance in proverbs

The squeaky wheel gets the grease

The early bird gets the worm

“Breaking Stones”

By Gillian Clark

Out in the dusk day after day breaking

stones, summer and winter, aching bones.

“Breaking Stones” cont’d

Under the tarmac of every road, every

motorway, lie the old tracks and the stones

they broke, the stones they sold.

Winter and summer stones for bread, and

bread for stones, till their old bones ached

from breaking stones.

More assonance

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoe

m.do?poemId=470

“A Rose for Janet”

Write your own assonance

Think of some short phrases that show

assonance in their vowels

It doesn’t matter how silly they are

Pick a vowel and give it a try

“Early girls working the earth”

“Early bird gets the worm”

Homework for the coming week

For Saturday, do HW 3 (transcription)

For next Wednesday, do HW 4

Start thinking about word stress and

think about nicknames—best and worst

nicknames, most/least sensible, popular

Diphthongs, /r/-colored V practice

Maestro

Flour

Oyster

Prowess

License

Coin

Purpose

Sherbet

Converge

Upper

War

Lard

Extra material IF needed

Vowel variation

Economics

Route

Semiformal

Aunt

Produce

Harassment

Envelope

Address

Vowel variation 2

Hurry

Adult

Creek

Roof

Hoodlum

Volatile

Pecan

Productivity

Get dads reading!

http://www.booktrust.org.uk/books/childr

en/how-to-share-books/get-dads-

reading/

James Patterson

Summer Heights High

Australian Mockumentary

Celine, Drama Class, Evacuation Procedures (best to

transcribe)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA0Xl9OB19o&feature=rel

ated

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAoATVaCTCo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lohXhTOCtE&feature=fv

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