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This document provides an overview of phonetics and the sounds of American English. It discusses plosives and how they are sounds made by blocking airflow and then releasing it. It describes the places of articulation for different consonant sounds like bilabial, labiodental, and interdental. The document also outlines the articulators involved in sound production like the lips, teeth, tongue, soft palate, and larynx. Finally, it discusses auditory phonetics, acoustic phonetics, and articulatory phonetics as different areas of study within phonetics.

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Week #1 PDF

This document provides an overview of phonetics and the sounds of American English. It discusses plosives and how they are sounds made by blocking airflow and then releasing it. It describes the places of articulation for different consonant sounds like bilabial, labiodental, and interdental. The document also outlines the articulators involved in sound production like the lips, teeth, tongue, soft palate, and larynx. Finally, it discusses auditory phonetics, acoustic phonetics, and articulatory phonetics as different areas of study within phonetics.

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Lab

Warm-up
Consonat overview
1. Peter plans to pick up a jump rope in the department store.[ p]
2. Bob bought a pair of brown rubber boots for his baby. [ b]
3. The teacher told us to try to write eighteen sentences every night. [ t]
4. Those bad children seldom did what their daddy told them to do. [ d]
5. The cook is baking six carrot cakes with cream cheese frosting. [ k]
6. The ugly dog has been digging up all the grass in the garden. [ d]
Plosives
Plosives are sounds you make by blocking off the breath
stream entirely for a very short period of time, just long
enough to build up some air pressure behind your articulators.
You then suddenly explode this air to produce the sound.
"Pet".
Places &
Method of
articulation
Pages
[ t]: 128, 129, 131.b.
[ d]: 132, 133
[ p]: 173, 174, 175
[ b]: 176, 177
[ k]: 210, 211, 212-213(more practice).
[ g]: 214, 215, 216
Fonética
The sounds of
American English
PROFESSOR: PRISCILLA LACAYO
Voicing
All consonants are either voiced or voiceless.
All consonants are sounds that interrupt or restrict the flow of air.
All consonants are described through articulators such as tongue,
lips, teeth.
Classification of sounds
Consonants, vowels and diphthongs

[p] [b] [eɪ] [oʊ]


[ɪ] [e]
To distinguish all the sounds of spoken
English
People can associate the symbols with

IPA
actual movement of the speech
mechanism.
IPA Transcription is used to speak, not
to write.
Kit / skip
Allophone
The sounds of American English
There's only one written language
If you are talking about spoken English languages, the answer is thousands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcxByX6rh24
Places of articulation
Bilabial: both upper and lower lips close completely. Examples: [b, m, p]
Labiodental: the inside of the lower lips and the upper teeth come
together for these sounds. Examples: [f, v]
Interdental: The tip of the tongue lightly touches the cutting edge of
the upper teeth. Examples: [θ, ð]
What is involved in Phonetics
Phonetics is the study of speech sounds including its production and
perception and acoustic analysis. (Phonetician)
Auditory phonetics: focuses on how listeners perceive the sounds of language.
(communication)
Acoustic phonetics: focuses on the physical properties of the sounds of
language. (frequency, intensity, and duration)
Articulatory phonetics: focuses on how the vocal tract produces the sounds of
language.(movements and/or positions of the vocal organs)
Articulators
Glottis = the opening between the vocal cords
Larynx = ‘voice box’.
Oral cavity = mouth
Pharynx = tubular part of the throat above the larynx. It is a resonating
cavity of chamber lying above the larynx and posterior to the oral cavity. [g]
e.g.: God, good.
Nasal cavity = nose and the passages connecting it to the throat. It is above
the hard and soft palate.
Articulators
Lips:The lips form the orifice of the mouth and are composed of muscle fibers
from a number of different facial muscles.
Teeth: Are embedded in the alveolar process of the maxilla and mandible.
Mandible: Also known as the lower jaw, the mandible houses the lower teeth.,
The tongue, and lower lip also ride on the mandible. e.g: job - hog
Alveolar ridge: It is also referred to as the alveolar process. This inferiorly
directed ridge of the maxilla houses the upper teeth.
Articulators
Hard palate: Along with the soft palate, the hard palate forms the roof of the
mouth. e.g. Lower
Soft palate: It is also referred to as the velum, This musculotendinous structure
extends posteriorly from the hard palate and acts to modify the communication
between the oral cavity below and nasal cavity above. [ŋ] sing
Tongue tip: It is the part of the tongue lying closes to the front teeth. e.g. touch
Tongue blade: The center. It is the part of the tongue lying just below the upper
alveolar ridge. e.g. dog
Tongue back: It is the part of the tongue lying below the soft palate.
Articulators
Draw the places of articulation
seen in class
Pages
[ t]: 130, 131.c.
[ d]: 134, 135
[ p]: 174, 175
[ b]: 177, 178, 179
[ k]: 211, 212.
[ g]: 216 (more practice)
Tongue twister
Page #175
Tongue twister
Page #179

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