Study links
| Phonetics & Phonology 1 (winter semester) | |||
| 1. | Introduction | ||
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Use one of the following learner's dictionaries to help you with your transcriptions: | ||
| CAMBRIDGE: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/ | |||
| OXFORD: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/ | |||
| LONGMAN: https://www.ldoceonline.com/ | |||
| 2. | Phonemic transcription |
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Use online phonemic keyboard to copy and paste IPA transcriptions: |
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| 3. | English vowels, diphthongs and triphthongs |
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Listen to the sounds (phonemes) of English in the interactive phonemic chart at EnglishClub: https://www.englishclub.com/pronunciation/phonemic-chart-ia.php |
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Learn & test yourself on the IPA symbols: |
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Read about triphthongs and listen to smoothing http://www.englishpronunciationmadrid.com/vowels/vowels/smoothing/
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| 4. | Consonants | ||
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Test yourself labelling English consonants in John Maidment's Fonetic Flash: |
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Check out this interactive tutorial on English plosives on the UCL SIPhTrA webpage: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wtutor?tutorial=siphtra/plostut1/plostut1.htm |
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| 5. | Strong and weak syllables | ||
| 6. | Stress in simple words | ||
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Practise transcribing simple words in IPA on David Brett's website: http://davidbrett.uniss.it/index.php?id=pt
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Watch an English language teacher use Cuisenaire rods to practice word stress |
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| 7. | Complex word stress | ||
| 8. | Weak forms: Part I | ||
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Listen to theory and play some examples of weak form words in connected speech on David Brett's website |
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| 9. | Weak forms: Part II |
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Practise phonemic transcription of short phrases & sentences on David Brett's website: http://davidbrett.uniss.it/index.php?home |
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Read on and listen to the alveolar tap/flap in a Wikipedia article: |
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Varieties of English pronunciation: BBC v GA |
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Aspects of connected speech 1 |
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Whatch a teacher explaining stress-timing in a video: |
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Read, listen and do excercises on yod coalescence on David Brett's website: |
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Read, listen and do excercises on elision on David Brett's website: http://davidbrett.uniss.it/phonology/notes%20and%20exercises/elision/elision.htm |
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| • | Read, listen and do excercises on r-linking on David Brett's website: | ||
| 12. | Intonation 1 | ||
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Listen to the explanation of 7 nuclear tones by an English language teacher: |
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| 13. | Intonation: Part II (Functions of intonation) |
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Learn about the the basic sentence intonation patterns (falling & rising tones) in an IELTS video (Australian English) |
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| • | Watch this four-part video explaining basic sentence intonation patterns (American English) | ||
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PART 1: What intonation is, falling & rising intonation |
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PART 2: Falling & rising intonation + practice with falling intonation |
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PART 3: Rising intonation pattern |
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PART 4: Practice with intonation in questions |
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