PHONETICS 2

Review

Review questions
1. What is phonetics?
2. What are the three types of
phonetics?
3. Why do we need the IPA?
4. What are the basic principles of IPA?
5. What constitutes the organs of
speech?

Review questions cont.

7. What are suprasegmentals?
8. What are segments?
9. What is the difference between
consonants and vowels?
10. What are the three criteria for
classifying English consonants?

The three criteria for classifying

consonants
1. State of glottis
2. Place of articulation
3. Manner of articulation

ENGLISH CONSONANTS

Practice
P. 89, ex. 6
P. 90. Ex. 7-8
Review VII-X

ENGLISH VOWELS

bead
bid
bayed
bed
bad
bawd

booed
bide
bowed
bode
Boyd
bud

bead
bid
bayed
bed
bad
bawd

[i]
[I]
[eI]
[]
[]
[]

booed
bide
bowed
bode
Boyd
bud

[u]
[aI]
[a]
[o]
[I]
[]

Monophthongs : diphthongs

Knives vs. nave

Classifying vowles
1. Raising/lowering the body of the tongue
(high - mid - low)
2. Advancing (fronting)/retracting the body of
the tongue (front - central - back)
3. Rounding/not rounding the lips (rounded nonrounded)
4. Making these movements with tense or lax
gesture (tense - lax)

ENGLISH VOWELS

Tongue height
Seat

high [i]

Set

mid []

Sat

low []

Tongue height
High vowels:
[i] seat, leak; [I] lick; [u] Luke; [] look
Mid vowels:
[] dell; [] dull; [] doll; []
Canada:Canadian
Low vowels:
[] cat ; [] cot

TONGUE ADVANCEMENT
Beat [i] : boot [u]

Tongue advancement

Front vowels:
[i] seek; [I] sick; [] sec; [] sack
Central vowels:
[] luck; [] another
Back vowels
[u] ooze; [] look; [] hall; [] dot

Lip rounding
Rounded vowels
[u] loop; [] foot; [] fall
[o] - part of the diphthong

Tense : lax
[i] : [I]
[eI] : []
[u] : []
[o] : []

beat: bit
bait:bet
boot:put
boat:bore

Diphthongs
(5)
[I] eye, buy
[] bow, down
[I] boy
[o] bow, arrow
[eI] bay


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Practice
P. 92-3: 13, 14, 15, 17
Go back to slide 7 and identify the
vowels in each word
English vowels handout (homework)
Review of English Consonants and
Vowels handout (homework)