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    The document discusses topics related to phonetics and phonology such as speech sounds, phonemes, allophones and provides exercises to practice phonetic transcription.

    The main topics covered include articulatory phonetics, acoustic phonetics, segmental sounds, suprasegmentals, consonant and vowel phonemes, and allophones.

    The phonetic criteria used to describe vowel phonemes are height of the tongue, part of the tongue involved, and position of the lips.

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CARABOBO

    FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE EDUCACIÓN


    ESCUELA DE EDUCACIÓN
    DEPARTAMENTO DE IDIOMAS MODERNOS
    CÁTEDRA: GRAMATICA Y LINGÜÍSTICA INGLESA
    ASIGNATURA: LINGÜÍSTICA APLICADA

    The term phonetics refers to the description of speech


    sound (how they are made, transmitted and
    received). While the term phonology refers to the way
    those sounds are organized into the individual
    languages.

    Articulatory (It studies how sounds are produced)


    Phonetics Acoustic (It studies how sounds are perceived)

    Segmentals (Consonants & vowels)


    Sounds Suprasegmentals (Stress, rhythm, intonation…)

    Phoneme: it is the smallest unit Allophone: It is the variation of


    of speech which has meaning. a sound (phoneme).
    (Consonants and vowels)

    Consonant phonemes:

    BILABIAL LABIO- DENTAL ALVEOLAR RETROFLEX ALVEO- PALATAL VELAR GLOTTAL


    DENTAL PALATAL
    /p/- /t/- /k/-
    STOP /b/+ /d/+ /g/+
    /f/- /θ/- /S/- /∫/- /h/-
    FRICATIVE /v/+ / /+ /Z/+ /3/+
    /t∫/-
    AFFRICATE /d3/+
    LATERAL /l/+

    NASAL
    /m/+ /n/+ /η/+
    APPROXI-
    MANTS /w/*+ /r/+ /j/+
    *NOTE: labio-velar *Voicing: voiced (+) and voiceless (-)

    Phonetic criteria:
    1. Point of articulation: bilabial, dental, labiodental, alveolar,
    alveo-palatal, palatal, velar, glottal, and uvular.
    2. Manner of articulation: plosive, fricative, affricate, nasal,
    approximant, laterals and retroflex.
    3. Voicing: voiced and voiceless.

    Vowel phonemes:

    Phonetic criteria:
    1. Height of tongue: high, mid, and low.
    2. Part of the tongue involved: front, central, and back.
    3. Position of the lips: rounded and unrounded.

    EXERCISES:

    1) Identify the sound that does not fit into the string. Explain.

    Speech sounds
    m p b θ
    t n s f
    t∫ ∫ d d3
    u: ә i: e 2) Mark the two words that contain a silent consonant.
    brother listen writer cinema music house know
    says book

    3) Read the following groups of words, and transcribe them. Then, select which word
    has a different sound.
     look good blood foot ____________________________
     dead mean bread head ____________________________
     fruit suit juice built ____________________________
     sons girls dreams books _____________________________
     pen red ten bee _____________________________

    4) Transcribe the following sentences, and circle all bilabial and fricative sounds.
     A couple of brushes _________________________________
     I wish I could see a real witch _________________________________
     She is at the store _________________________________
     Peter likes drinking Pepsi _________________________________

    5) Put a check √ next to the word that have front vowels, and circle the vowel
    phoneme.
     ____talk  ____keep  ____already
     ____dollar  ____dream  ____before
     ____wonder  ____October
    6) Describe the following phonemes.
    /e/_______________________________ /d/________________________________
    /η/_______________________________ /t/________________________________
    /∫/________________________________ /p/_______________________________
    /ә/________________________________ /w/_______________________________
    /i:/________________________________ /g/_______________________________
    /u:/________________________________

    7) Choose the corresponding phoneme for the following criteria.


    Bilabial, stop, voiceless______ low, central, unrounded______
    High, back, rounded______ Fricative, alveolar, voiceless_______
    Lateral, alveolar______ Approximants, palatal_______
    Nasal, velar, voiced______ back, mid, rounded_______

    8) Circle and correct the errors in the following transcribed sentences.


     It is a lost cause __________________________________
     It is all right __________________________________
     I’ve been in The USA for two years __________________________________
     I cooked onions for lunch __________________________________
     The prince of Persia __________________________________

    9) Decode the following message.

    Phonemic symbols represent the sounds of the English language.


    __________________________________________________________________________
    Using them can be a valuable tool
    __________________________________________________
    to improving your students' pronunciation.
    _________________________________________________________

    10) Describe the following phonemes (consonants & vowels).

    p m b v
    k g r u
    f s z t∫
    e i: w l
    ∫ n m θ

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