Phonetics, part 2
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Transcript of Phonetics, part 2
Phonetics, part 2
October 12, 2012
One Thing• The Final Exam schedule has been posted for this class:
• Monday, December 17th, from 3:30-5:30 pm
• Location TBD
The Last Quick Write
The Last Quick Write
The Last Quick Write
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 PhonemesFamiliar 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 PhonemesUnfamiliar IPA symbols, for consonants:
23. ‘thought’ “theta” 28. ‘chop’
24. ‘though’ “edh” 29. ‘jot’
25. ‘shot’ “esh”
26. ‘vision’ “ezh”
27. ‘ring’ “engma”
English PhonemesUnfamiliar IPA symbols, for vowels:
30. ‘bid’ “cap-I”
31. ‘bed’ “epsilon”
32. ‘bad’ “ash”
33. ‘bud’ “wedge”
34. ‘foot’ “upsilon”
More Diphthongs35. [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:
c x q y
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)