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Chapter 3 The Sounds of Language

This document provides an overview of phonetics and the sounds of the English language. It discusses consonants and vowels, including voiced and voiceless consonants. It examines place and manner of articulation for consonants. It identifies short and long vowels as well as diphthongs. The goal is to study how English speech sounds are made and represented in the International Phonetics Alphabet.

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Chapter 3 The Sounds of Language

This document provides an overview of phonetics and the sounds of the English language. It discusses consonants and vowels, including voiced and voiceless consonants. It examines place and manner of articulation for consonants. It identifies short and long vowels as well as diphthongs. The goal is to study how English speech sounds are made and represented in the International Phonetics Alphabet.

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Chapter 3: The

sounds of
Language
Lecturer: Nguyen Le Bao Ngoc
What to study?
• Phonetics
– Consonants
• Voiced and voiceless sounds
• Place of articulation
• Manners of articulation
– Vowels
• Diphthongs
– Subtle individual variation
– Cultural notes
What is the problem here?
There are no spaces between
sounds as there are between
words
Phonetics
• Phonetics study how speech sounds are
made
• International Phonetics Alphabet, or
IPA
• This chapter looks at how English
sounds are represented
Phonetics: 3 branches of phonetics
• Articulatory phonetics: the study of how
speech sounds are made (or articulated)
• Acoustic phonetics: the study of the
physical properties of speech
• Auditory phonetics: (perceptual
phonetics) the study of the perception,
via the ear, of speech sound
Consonants and vowels
• Consonants are articulated via
obstruction in the vocal tracts
• Vowels are produced with a free flow
of air
Consonants
• Voiced and voiced less
• Place of articulation
• Manner of articulation
Example: a voiced bilabial stop
/b/
Voiced and voiceless sounds
1. When the vocal folds are
spread apart, the air from
the lungs passes between
them with no obstruction,
producing voiceless
sounds
2. When the vocal folds are
together, the air from the
lungs repeatedly pushes
them apart as it passes
through, with a vibration
effect, producing voiced
sounds
A consonant chart
Place of articulation
Bilabials
Labiodentals
Dentals
Alveolars
Palatals
Velars
Glottals
Manner of articulation
A consonant chart
Glottal stops and flaps
Glottal stops: [ʔ]
• Uh-uh
• Harry Potter
• Bottle/ butter
Flaps: [ɾ]
• Latter/ladder
• metal/medal
• Writer/rider
• Plato/playdough
Vowels
 Vowels are produced with a relatively
free flow of air.
 Vowels are typically voiced.
Vowels: short vowels
/ɪ/: it, hit
/e/: set, get
/æ/: hand, man
/ʌ/: sun, fun
/ʌ/: enough, mother, other
/ɒ/: hot, shot
/ʊ/: good, cook
Vowels: long vowels
/i:/: keep, need
/u:/: should, food
/ɜ:/: fur, stir
/ɔ:/: bored, more
/ɑ:/: car, far
Vowels

unrounded
rounded
Diphthongs
Sounds that consist of a combination of
two vowel sounds
Diphthongs
• /ɪə/: hear, near
• /eə/: bear, stair
• /ʊə/: moor, poor
• /eɪ/: play, stay
• /aɪ/: high, nice
• /ɔɪ/: toy, boy
• /əʊ/: go, boat
• /aʊ/: house, now
Examples
• Tottenham Hotspur
• Greenwich
• Edinburgh
• Salisbury
• Gloucester
• Sainsbury’s
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