phonetics activities

Useful Links for

Phonetics Purposes

Useful Links for Phonetics Purposes

Typing IPA fonts

http://ipa.typeit.org/

Articulatory Review

http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics

http://ipa.typeit.org/


Beware of heard, a dreadful word

That looks like beard and sounds like bird;

And dead: it’s said like bed, not bead;

For goodness sake, don’t call it deed!

Watch out for mean and great and threat.

(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.)

A moth is not moth in mother,

Nor bth in bother, broth in brother….

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No

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uag

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Exercise: Sound and Spelling

IPA Chart (Summary)

Exercise: IPA Chart, Summary

Click in here for an Articulatory Review



Vocal Organs, Review

Exercise: Vocal Organs

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

AB C D E

Vowels & Consonants, Review

Exercise: Vowels and Consonants

The United States started with 13 small states.

Now there are 50 states spread from east to west.

Mother washed, cooked, and cleaned.

After she finished, she rested.

Charting English Consonants

Exercise: English Consonants

BilabialLabio-

dentalDental Alveolar

Palato-

AlveolarPalatal Velar

Place of Articulation

Nasal

Plosive

Fricative

Approximant

Lateral

Man

ner

of

Art

icu

lati

on p b t d k g

m n ŋ

f v θ ð s z ʃ ʒ

r

l

j w

Affricate

Voiceless Voiced

dʒtʃ

h*

*This speech sound has no specific place of articulation.

To avoid confusion and to facilitate comprehension, this

sound’s properties: fricative – velar (glottal) – voiceless.

Appreciating English Consonants:

Place & Manner of Articulations

Exercise: Properties of Consonant Sounds

Bilabial

Places of Articulation

Ladefoged, P. (2005). Vowels and Consonants: An Introduction to the Sounds of Languages. UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, pp, 115-17

Upper and Lower lips come together.

Labio-dental Lower lip approximating Upper teeth.

Dental Tip of Tongue near Upper teeth.

Alveolar

Tip or Blade of tongue near the forward part of the Hard Palate, behind Alveolar Ridge. (Palato-Alveolar)

Tip of the tongue touching /near Alveolar Ridge.

Post- Alveolar

Front of tongue near Hard Palate.Palatal

Back of tongue touching Soft Palate (Velum).Velar

Two lips approaching one another, and Back of tongue raised toward Soft Palate.

Labio-Velar

Appreciating English Consonants:

Place & Manner of Articulations

Exercise: Properties of Consonant Sounds

Stop (plosive)

Manner of Articulation

Ladefoged, P. (2005). Vowels and Consonants: An Introduction to the Sounds of Languages. UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, pp, 115-17

Complete closure of vocal tract. Air is blocked from going out .

Nasal Closure of vocal tract making air coming out through the nose.

Fricative Constriction of vocal tract so that a kind of noise is formed.

Affricate

Tip or Blade of tongue near the forward part of the Hard Palate, behind Alveolar Ridge. (Palato-Alveolar)

A complete closure of vocal tract followed by a fricative manner made atthe same place of articulation.

Approximant

Tongue touching roof of mouth without contacting teeth at the sides.Lateral

Charting English Vowels

Exercise: English Vowels

HIGH

Voiceless Voiced

Horizontal Movement

Vertical Movement

Lip Rounding

LOW

FRONT

BACK

ROUNDED

UNROUNDED

MID

CENTRAL

NEUTRAL

Vocal Folds: Voiced

Charting English VowelsExercise: English Vowels

HIGHV

erti

cal M

ove

men

t

Horizontal Movement

Lip Rounding

LOW

FRONTBACK

ROUNDED UNROUNDED

MID

CENTRAL

NEUTRAL

From Transcriptions to

Linguistic Units

Exercise: From Transcriptions to Linguistic Units

Putting Vowels & Consonants Together:

The Phenomenon of Coarticulation

Exercise: Putting Vowels and Consonants All Together: Coarticulation

ǀ ˈmaɪneɪmzˈfrediǀ ənˈjʊəz ǀ

ǀ s̍ɒritəˈbʌðəjʊ ǀ b̍ʌt ǀ ˈwɒtsjəˈneim

ǀ ɪtsˈnaistəˈmɪˈtʃə ǀ

ǀ maɪneɪmzˈnɪˈkləs ǀ

ǀ d̍əʊmˈmenʃ ̩̩n̩ɪt ǀ ɪtwəzmaɪˈplɜ

A:

B:

B:

A:

A:

Articulatory Quiz:

Vowels and Consonants Features

Articulatory Quiz: Vowels & Consonants Features

ǀ ˈs ɒ r i t ə ˈb ʌ ð ə j

ʊ ǀ

ǀ ˈb ʌ t ǀ ˈw ɒ t ʒ ə n̍ e i

m ǀ

Vowels Consonants

H

V

LR

Pl

MA

VF

ǀˈaimveri s̍ɒribǝtδeǝwǝz s̍ʌmθɪŋaɪhǝdtʊǝˈtend ǀ

Articulatory Quiz (1):



/b

/

1

2

3

/ʌ/1

2

3

/ʒ/1

2

3

/ɒ/1

2

3

/j

/

1

2

3

/ə/1

2

3

Look at the IPA symbols corresponding to speech sounds and determine the

distinctive features they exhibit. You may not use a formal chart, but be

warned to use your own articulatory awareness to identify such features.




/w

/

1

2

3

/e/1

2

3

/n

/

1

2

3

/ʊ/1

2

3

/t

/

1

2

3

/ɪˈ

/

1

2

3







/r/1

2

3

/ɜˈ

/

1

2

3

/d

/

1

2

3

/æ

/

1

2

3

/ð/1

2

3

/ɔˈ

/

1

2

3







/v/1

2

3

/ɪ/1

2

3

/s

/

1

2

3

/ɑˈ

/

1

2

3

/θ/1

2

3

/ʊˈ

/

1

2

3







/m

/

1

2

3

/g/1

2

3

/k

/

1

2

3

/l/1

2

3

/h/1

2

3

/z/1

2

3







/f/1

2

3

/ʧ/1

2

3

/p

/

1

2

3

/w

/

1

2

3

/ʤ/1

2

3

/j/1

2

3




Articulatory Quiz:

Recognizing Vowels & Consonants Distinctive Features

Exercise: Articulatory Quiz: V & C

phonetics activities

Documents

english language

english consonantsexercise

blade of tongue

dental tip of tongue

approximant tongue

alveolar ridge

hard palate

palatoalveolar tip