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    This document provides an introduction to phonetics, which is divided into three categories: articulatory phonetics describes how sounds are produced; acoustic phonetics describes how sounds are transmitted; and auditory phonetics describes how sounds are perceived. It discusses the differences between consonants and vowels, and notes that English has 24 consonant and 20 vowel sounds. The document also explains that there is no one-to-one correlation between sounds and letters in English spelling.

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    This document provides an introduction to phonetics, which is divided into three categories: articulatory phonetics describes how sounds are produced; acoustic phonetics describes how sounds are transmitted; and auditory phonetics describes how sounds are perceived. It discusses the differences between consonants and vowels, and notes that English has 24 consonant and 20 vowel sounds. The document also explains that there is no one-to-one correlation between sounds and letters in English spelling.

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    This document provides an introduction to phonetics, which is divided into three categories: articulatory phonetics describes how sounds are produced; acoustic phonetics describes how sounds are transmitted; and auditory phonetics describes how sounds are perceived. It discusses the differences between consonants and vowels, and notes that English has 24 consonant and 20 vowel sounds. The document also explains that there is no one-to-one correlation between sounds and letters in English spelling.

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    ENGLISH

    PHONETICS
    • SPEECH SOUNDS
    • PRONOUNCING VS. SPELLING
    • IPA SYMBOLS
    An Intro to Phonetics
    ■ Phonetics is concerned with describing speech ( Ladefoged & Johnson, 2010, p. 2).
    ■ Phonetics is divided into three broad categories:

    Acoustic Phonetics: how sounds


    Articulatory Phonetics: how
    are transmitted or transferred
    sounds are produced or
    from the speakers to the
    articulated by humans
    listeners

    Auditory Phonetics: how sounds


    are received and perceived by
    the listeners
    Articulatory Phonetics

    ■ In articulatory phonetics, we investigate how speech sounds


    (consonants and vowels) are produced using the fairly
    complex speech articulators that we have
    ■ We also investigate the classification of speech sounds of
    English
    ■ We need to know phonetic alphabet in order to represent
    the sounds using symbols (phonetic transcription)
    Consonants Vs. Vowels

    Consonants Vowels
    ■ Sounds which are produced or ■ Sounds which are produced or
    articulated by significant obstructed articulated by unobstructed airflow
    airflow through one or more in oral cavity.
    articulators in oral cavity.
    ■ English consists of 20 sounds,
    ■ English consists of 24 sounds. which are divided into 12
    monophthongs and 8 diphthongs.
    There is no one-to-one correlation between
    People quite often confuse sounds sounds and letters.
    with letters (See your book page 16) • Some letters represent more than one
    different sound
    recall vs. receive gear vs. siege
    • Some letters represent no sounds at all
    LETTERS receive use
    (GRAPHEMES)
    • Sometimes two letters represent just one
    sound
    recall phonetics
    • Some letters represent two or more
    sounds at once
    SOUNDS
    (PHONEMES) tax use
    • The same sound can be represented by
    many different letters
    /∫/ = shy, mission, machine, special,
    caution
    IPA
    SYMBOLS
    Phonetic Transcription

    q Phonetic alphabet is sound representation as a sequence of segments, i.e.: with an


    alphabet (symbol).
    q In a phonetic alphabet, sounds and symbols have a one-to-one relationship to each
    other:
    ü Each symbol represents one sound
    ü Each sound is represented by one symbol
    q The use of a phonetic alphabet to represent speech is called phonetic transcription.
    q Our phonetic alphabet of choice:
    ü The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).

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