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Phonetics
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What is Phonetics?
• It is a scientific study of sounds used in human
speech. Science of speech sounds.
• Study about the speech production,
transmission and reception.
Phonetic Transcription and the
IPA
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
– 9 uncommon
• θ, ð, ŋ, ʃ, ʒ, j, g, tʃ, dʒ
Phonetics
• Articulatory phonetics (speech sounds)
• Acoustic phonetics (sounds – how are they
formed)
• Auditory phonetics (hearing – sounds)
Phonetics- Vowel
'vaʊə l
• 12 vowel sounds
– 5 long vowels, 7 short vowels
• 8 diphthongs
Sounds
Consonants Diphthongs
24 8
Vowels
12
5 7
Organs of Speech
•i:, ɪ, u:, ʊ
•e, ə, ɜ:, ɔ:
•æ, ʌ, a:, ɒ
Transcribe
• Sea, seat, keep, eat, chief, keen, feet
• Bath, calm, grass, far, car, part, charm
• Earth, work, earn, turn, fern, girl, stir
• Ball, pause, salt, fault, daughter, paw
• Shoe, pool, tool, food, rule, tune, truth
• /ɪ/ as in ‘pit’ pɪt
• /e/ as in 'pet' pet
• /æ/ as in 'pat' pæt
• /ʌ/ as in ‘up' ʌp
• /ɒ/ as in 'pot' pɒt /ə/ as in 'about, 'upper'
əbaʊt,
• /ʊ/ as in 'put' pʊt
• /i:/ as in 'key' ki:
• /ɑ:/ as in 'car' kɑ: (r)
• /ɔ:/ as in 'core' k ɔ: (r)
• /u:/ as in 'cool' ku:l
• /ɜ:/ as in 'cur' kɜ:tn
• /ɪ/
• /e/
• /æ/
• /ʌ/
• /ɒ/
• /ʊ/
• /i:/
• /ɑ:/
• /ɔ:/
• /u:/
• /ɜ:/
• / ə/
Transcribe
• Lid, city, ship, fit, dish, pin, rich, pity
• Leg, desk, fell, red, pen, men, seven
• Man, sat, that, fat, back, glad, jam, bag
• Son, sun, fun, one, luck, pluck, cup
• About, around, another, along, attempt
• God, lot, cough, cross, not, pond, ox
• Pull, full, bush, push, look, should
Diphthongs
• A vowel sound that starts near the articulatory
position for one vowel and moves toward the
position for another.
• Combination of vowel sounds
• Sad
• Stood
• Cry
• Sing
• But
• Caught
• Nice
Transcribe
• Toy
• Fair
• Strong
• Wild
• Cheese
• Through
• Rather
• Write all the long vowels and short vowels