phonetics activities

Useful Links for

Phonetics Purposes

Useful Links for Phonetics Purposes

Typing IPA fonts

http://ipa.typeit.org/

Articulatory Review

http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics

http://ipa.typeit.org/


Beware of heard, a dreadful word

That looks like beard and sounds like bird;

And dead: it’s said like bed, not bead;

For goodness sake, don’t call it deed!

Watch out for mean and great and threat.

(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.)

A moth is not moth in mother,

Nor bth in bother, broth in brother….

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No

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uag

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Exercise: Sound and Spelling

IPA Chart (Summary)

Exercise: IPA Chart, Summary

Click in here for an Articulatory Review



Vocal Organs, Review

Exercise: Vocal Organs

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2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

A B C D E

Vowels & Consonants, Review

Exercise: Vowels and Consonants

The United States started with 13 small states.

Now there are 50 states spread from east to west.

Mother washed, cooked, and cleaned.

After she finished, she rested.

Charting English Consonants

Exercise: English Consonants

Bilabial Labio-

dental Dental Alveolar

Palato-

Alveolar Palatal Velar

Place of Articulation

Nasal

Plosive

Fricative

Approximant

Lateral

Man

ne

r o

f A

rtic

ula

tio

n p b t d k g

m n ŋ

f v θ ð s z ʃ ʒ

r l

j w

Affricate

Voiceless Voiced

d ʒ t ʃ

h*

*This speech sound has no specific place of articulation.

To avoid confusion and to facilitate comprehension, this

sound’s properties: fricative – velar (glottal) – voiceless.

Appreciating English Consonants:

Place & Manner of Articulations

Exercise: Properties of Consonant Sounds

Bilabial

Places of Articulation

Ladefoged, P. (2005). Vowels and Consonants: An Introduction to the Sounds of Languages. UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, pp, 115-17

Upper and Lower lips come together.

Labio-dental Lower lip approximating Upper teeth.

Dental Tip of Tongue near Upper teeth.

Alveolar

Tip or Blade of tongue near the forward part of the Hard Palate, behind Alveolar Ridge. (Palato-Alveolar)

Tip of the tongue touching /near Alveolar Ridge.

Post- Alveolar

Front of tongue near Hard Palate. Palatal

Back of tongue touching Soft Palate (Velum). Velar

Two lips approaching one another, and Back of tongue raised toward Soft Palate.

Labio-Velar

Appreciating English Consonants:

Place & Manner of Articulations

Exercise: Properties of Consonant Sounds

Stop (plosive)

Manner of Articulation

Ladefoged, P. (2005). Vowels and Consonants: An Introduction to the Sounds of Languages. UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, pp, 115-17

Complete closure of vocal tract. Air is blocked from going out .

Nasal Closure of vocal tract making air coming out through the nose.

Fricative Constriction of vocal tract so that a kind of noise is formed.

Affricate

Tip or Blade of tongue near the forward part of the Hard Palate, behind Alveolar Ridge. (Palato-Alveolar)

A complete closure of vocal tract followed by a fricative manner made at the same place of articulation.

Approximant

Tongue touching roof of mouth without contacting teeth at the sides. Lateral

Charting English Vowels

Exercise: English Vowels

HIGH

Voiceless Voiced

Horizontal Movement

Vertical Movement

Lip Rounding

LOW

FRONT

BACK

ROUNDED

UNROUNDED

/SPREAD

MID

CENTRAL

NEUTRAL

Vocal Folds: Voiced

Charting English Vowels Exercise: English Vowels

HIGH

Ver

tica

l Mo

vem

ent

Horizontal Movement

Lip Rounding

LOW

FRONT BACK

ROUNDED UNROUNDED

/ SPREAD

MID

CENTRAL

NEUTRAL

ɪː

ɪ

e

æ

ɑː

ɒ ʌ

ə

ɜː ɔː

uː

ʊ MID/HIGH

MID/LOW

Spanish Vowels

Short

Long

Symbols

From Transcriptions to

Linguistic Units

Exercise: From Transcriptions to Linguistic Units

Why do you want to leave so early? I’d have thought that we could get there on time

If we left about half past ten. If we leave at 9, we’ll arrive far too early,

And we’ll have to stand around in the cold, waiting for the others to show up.

Putting Vowels & Consonants Together:

The Phenomenon of Coarticulation

Exercise: Putting Vowels and Consonants All Together: Coarticulation

ǀ ˈsɒritəˈbʌðəjʊ ǀ ˈbʌt ǀ ˈwɒtsjəˈneim ǀ A:

ǀ ˈmaɪneɪmzˈfredi ǀ ənˈjʊəz ǀ B:

ǀ ɪtsˈnaistəˈmɪːtʃə ǀ B:

ǀ maɪneɪmzˈnɪːkləs ǀ A:

ǀ ˈdəʊmˈmenʃ̩̩n̩ɪt ǀ ɪtwəzmaɪˈplɜːʒə ǀ A:

Articulatory Quiz (1):

Vowels and Consonants Features

Articulatory Quiz: Vowels & Consonants Features

/b/ 1

2

3

/ʌ/ 1

2

3

/ʒ/ 1

2

3

/ɒ/ 1

2

3

/j/ 1

2

3

/ə/ 1

2

3

Look at the IPA symbols corresponding to speech sounds and determine the

distinctive features they exhibit. You may not use a formal chart, but be

warned to use your own articulatory awareness to identify such features.




/w/ 1

2

3

/e/ 1

2

3

/n/ 1

2

3

/ʊ/ 1

2

3

/t/ 1

2

3

/ɪː/ 1

2

3







/r/ 1

2

3

/ɜː/ 1

2

3

/d/ 1

2

3

/æ/ 1

2

3

/ð/ 1

2

3

/ɔː/ 1

2

3







/v/ 1

2

3

/ɪ/ 1

2

3

/s/ 1

2

3

/ɑː/ 1

2

3

/θ/ 1

2

3

/ʊː/ 1

2

3







/m/ 1

2

3

/g/ 1

2

3

/k/ 1

2

3

/l/ 1

2

3

/h/ 1

2

3

/z/ 1

2

3







/f/ 1

2

3

/ʧ/ 1

2

3

/p/ 1

2

3

/w/ 1

2

3

/ʤ/ 1

2

3

/j/ 1

2

3




Articulatory Quiz:

Recognizing Vowels & Consonants Distinctive Features

Exercise: Articulatory Quiz: V & C

Speech Chain and Coarticulation: What Happens in Reality

Coarticulation, explanation

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