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Phonetics, part 2 October 12, 2012!

One Thing • The Final Exam schedule has been posted for this class:• Monday, December 17 th , 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 Familiar IPA symbols, same sound: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’

English Phonemes Familiar 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 Phonemes Unfamiliar IPA symbols, for consonants: 23. ‘thought’ “theta” 28. ‘chop’24. ‘though’ “edh” 29. ‘jot’25. ‘shot’ “esh”26. ‘vision’ “ezh”27. ‘ring’ “engma”

English Phonemes Unfamiliar IPA symbols, for vowels: 30. ‘bid’ “cap-I”31. ‘bed’ “epsilon”32. ‘bad’ “ash”33. ‘bud’ “wedge”34. ‘foot’ “upsilon”

More Diphthongs 35. [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 useinstead.• Also -- the following alphabetic symbols do not representany 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 inthe stressed syllable.• Examples of stress contrasts:• “contrast”• (N)• (V)• “insult”• (N)• (V)