Phonetics?
Consonants
Vowels
Stress, Vowel
lenght, etc
It provides the academic community worldwide with a notational standard for the
phonetic representation of all languages :
Tones
Diacritics
1st VOICING:
Does the sound vibrate or not?
3 parameters
1st Voicing:
1st - Voicing:
VOICED
UNVOICED = VOICELESS
ball []
do
[]
gone []
Paul
to
con
[]
[]
[]
van []
teethe []
gin
[]
zoo []
fan
teeth
chin
Sue
[]
[]
[]
[]
Lips: bilabial
Upper teeth & lower lips:
labiodental
Teeth: dental
Alveolar ridge: alveolar
Back of alveolar ridge:
post-alveolar
Hard palate: palatal
Velum/soft palate: velar
Uvula: uvular
Pharynx wall: pharyngeal
Vocal folds: glottal
(English consonants)
TOTAL CLOSURE
INTERMITTENT CLOSURE
PARTIAL CLOSURE
Lateral approximant:
Air escapes around the sides of a
closure [l]
NARROWING
[w]
we
why
twins
question
one
[j]
yet
beautiful
university
1st TONGUE:
Does it move forwards or
backwards?
3 parameters
2nd JAW:
Is it closed or opened?
3rd LIPS:
Are they rounded or spread?
THE VOWEL
TRAPIZIUM
The. vowel symbols are located at
the approximate position for the
tongue when producing them. All
vowels are voiced and the back
vowels are produced with liprounding while the front vowels
are not.