Information about Filipino speech

1. A comparison between Filipino and English phonology

Aspect
Consonants

Language
Filipino

English

Number

Details

Source

23consonants

/p, b, t, t , d, d, k, , , m, n, , r, s, , h, j, w,
, , dy'/

Malabonga&
Marinova
Todd(2007)

/p, b, t, d, k, , m, n, , , , f, v, s, z, , ,

Smit(2004)

24consonants

h, , , j, w, , l/
Consonant
clusters

Filipino

None

(onlyinborrowedwords)

Malabonga&
Marinova
Todd(2007)

English

Approx.29syllable
initialandmany
syllablefinal
consonantclusters

Many2and3elementconsonantclustersin
initialpositionincluding/pl, bl, kl, l, fl, sl,

McLeod
(2007)
Smit(2004)

5vowels+
6diphthongs

Vowels:/a, ,,, u, , /
Diphthongs:/a,,iw, ey, aw, uy/

Malabonga&
Marinova
Todd(2007)

14vowels+
3diphthongs

Vowels:/i, , e, , , , , , u, , o, , , /

Smit(2007)

14vowels+
3diphthongs

Vowels:/i, , e, , , , , , , , o, , , /

12vowels+
8diphthongs

Vowels:/i, , , , a, , , u, , , , /

12vowels+
8diphthongs

Vowels:/i, , e, , , , , o, , , , /iOR

Vowelsand
diphthongs

Filipino

English
(USGeneral
American)

English
(Canadian)

English
(UKReceived
Pronunciation)

English
(Australian)

p, b, t, d, k, , , f, , pj, tj, fj, mj, nj,

sm, sn, sp, st, sk, spl, sp, st, skw/and
many2to4elementconsonantclustersin
finalposition

Diphthongs:/a,a,/
(Smitalsolists5rcoloreddiphthongs)
Diphthongs:/, , /
Diphthongs:/a, a, , e, o, , , /
/i, , , , a, , , , , u, , /
ii

Diphthongs:/, e, , , , , e, /i
OR/e, a, o, a, , , , /ii

English
(NewZealand)

12vowels+
8diphthongs

Vowels:/i, , , , , , u, , , , , /iOR
/ i, , e, , a, , , , , , /ii

Diphthongs:/a, a, i, e, o, i, e, /iOR

Bernhardt,&
Deby(2007)
Howard
(2007)
i

Harrington,
Cox,&Evans,
(1997)
ii
Mitchell
(1946)
i

Bauer&
Warren(2004)
ii
Maclagan
(2009)

/ai, a, i, ei, o, i, e, /ii

Tones

Filipino

0tones

English

0tones

Syllableshape

Filipino

CVC(01)

McLeod,S.(2012).InformationaboutFilipinospeech.Bathurst,NSW,Australia:CharlesSturtUniversity.Retrievedfrom
http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingualspeech/languages.PublishedNovember2012.

Malabonga&
Marinova
Todd(2007)

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English

C(03)VC(04)

SmallestisVandlargestisCCCVCCCC.

Smit (2007)

Stresstimed
orsyllable
timed?

Filipino

Stressusedto
differentiate
meaning

Malabonga&
Marinova
Todd(2007)

English

Stresstimed

Syllablescanbestrongorweak.Stressalso
isusedforemphasis.

Varieties

Filipino

Somesayeightdialects,someminimal.

English

Manydialects

ManydialectsincludingGeneralAmerican
English,ReceivedPronunciation(England),
ScottishEnglish,IrishEnglish,Australian
English,NewZealandEnglish,SouthAfrican
Englishetc.

Writing
system

Filipino

Latinalphabet

Latinalphabetwithonetoone
correspondencebetweensoundsand
letters.Philippinescriptbaybayin.

English

Latinalphabet

Latinalphabetlooselyrelatedtophonetic
realizationsoftheconsonantsandvowels.

Malabonga&
Marinova
Todd(2007)

References

Filipinostudies
Malabonga,V.,&MarinovaTodd,S.(2007).FilipinospeechacquisitionInS.McLeod(Ed.),Theinternationalguideto
speechacquisition(pp.340350).CliftonPark,NY:ThomsonDelmarLearning.

Englishstudies
Bauer,L.,&Warren,P.(2004).NewZealandEnglish:Phonology.InE.Schneider,K.Burridge,B.Kortmann,R.Mesthrie&
C.Upton(Eds.).AhandbookofvarietiesofEnglish:Vol.1.Phonology(pp.580602).Berlin,Germany:Moutonde
Gruyer.
Bernhardt,B.M.H.,&Deby,J.(2007).CanadianEnglishspeechacquisition.InS.McLeod(Ed.),Theinternationalguideto
speechacquisition(pp.177187).CliftonPark,NY:ThomsonDelmarLearning.
Harrington,J.,Cox,F.,&Evans,Z.(1997).Anacousticphoneticstudyofbroad,general,andcultivatedAustralianEnglish
vowels.AustralianJournalofLinguistics,17,155184.
Howard,S.(2007).Englishspeechacquisition.InS.McLeod(Ed.),Theinternationalguidetospeechacquisition(pp.188
203).CliftonPark,NY:ThomsonDelmarLearning.
Maclagan,M.(2009).Reflectingconnectionswiththelocallanguage:NewZealandEnglish.InternationalJournalof
SpeechLanguagePathology,11(2),113121.
McLeod,S.(2007).AustralianEnglishspeechacquisition.InS.McLeod(Ed.),Theinternationalguidetospeech
acquisition(pp.241256).CliftonPark,NY:ThomsonDelmarLearning.
Mitchell,A.G.(1946).ThepronunciationofEnglishinAustralia.Sydney,Australia:Angus&Robertson.
Smit,A.B.(2004).Articulationandphonology:Resourceguideforschoolagechildrenandadults.CliftonPark,NY:
ThomsonDelmarLearning.
Smit,A.B.(2007).GeneralAmericanEnglishspeechacquisition.InS.McLeod(Ed.),Theinternationalguidetospeech
acquisition(pp.128147).CliftonPark,NY:ThomsonDelmarLearning.

2. Filipino speech assessments

ForalistofspeechassessmentsinFilipinosee:www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingualspeech/speechassessments

3. Monolingual speech acquisition (summaries and studies written in English)

Malabonga,V.,&MarinovaTodd,S.(2007).Filipinospeechacquisition.InS.McLeod(Ed.),Theinternationalguideto
speechacquisition(pp.340350).CliftonPark,NY:ThomsonDelmarLearning.
McLeod,S.(2012).InformationaboutFilipinospeech.Bathurst,NSW,Australia:CharlesSturtUniversity.Retrievedfrom
http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingualspeech/languages.PublishedNovember2012.

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4. Multilingual speech acquisition (summaries and studies written in English)

Generalsummaries
Goldstein,B.A.,&McLeod,S.(2012).Typicalandatypicalmultilingualspeechacquisition.InS.McLeod&B.A.Goldstein
(Eds.),Multilingualaspectsofspeechsounddisordersinchildren(pp.84100).Bristol,UK:MultilingualMatters.
Grech,H.,&McLeod,S.(2012).Multilingualspeechandlanguagedevelopmentanddisorders.InD.Battle(Ed.),
Communicationdisordersinmulticulturalandinternationalpopulations(4thed.,pp.120147).StLouis,MO:
Elsevier.
ZhuHua&Dodd,B.(Eds).(2006).Phonologicaldevelopmentanddisordersinchildren:Amultilingualperspective.
Cleavdon,UK:MultilingualMatters.
Yava,M.(2007).Multilingualspeechacquisition.InS.McLeod(Ed.),Theinternationalguidetospeechacquisition(pp.
96100).CliftonPark,NY:ThomsonDelmarLearning.

SummariesandstudiesofmultilingualFilipinospeechacquisition
Noneknown

McLeod,S.(2012).InformationaboutFilipinospeech.Bathurst,NSW,Australia:CharlesSturtUniversity.Retrievedfrom
http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingualspeech/languages.PublishedNovember2012.

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