PEDAGOGÍA DE LOS IDIOMAS NACIONALES Y

EXTRANJEROS - INGLÉS

GUÍA DE APRENDIZAJE 3

ASIGNATURA: Introduction to linguistics

PERÍODO ACADÉMICO: April – August 2021

DOCENTE: Rodrigo Tovar Viera

ESTUDIANTE: Yasleidy Idrovo

CICLO – PARALEO: Cuarto B

CORREO ELECTRÓNICO: yasleidy.idrovo8901@utc.edu.ec

N. CELULAR: 0987276969
 TEMA 1. LANGUAGE, LINGUISTICS AND THE SOCIAL INTERACTION

ACTIVITY 1: Phonemic and phonetic transcription

TASK 1. Watch the videos then, answer the questions below: Read chapter 3
in PeterRoach (2009). See the book in Google Classroom. Then,
answer the following questions below:
(you have to log in into Google Classroom to access to the material of Roach)
https://bit.ly/3evOEy3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzKtD0hdK2c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP69amt7w8U

What does transcription mean in linguistics?

Phonetic transcription is a visual representation of speech sounds. The most common type of
phonetic transcription uses the phonetic alphabet, such as the International Phonetic
Alphabet.

What is the difference between phonemes and phonetics?

Phonemes are the minimum articulation (pronunciation) of a vowel and consonant sound.
Phonetics studies the sounds of speech and the way we understand those sounds.

What is phonetic transcription, provide at least 3 examples?

The phonetic transcription is the written representation of the sounds that we pronounce
through symbols.
What is phonemic transcription, provide at least 3 examples?
Phonemic transcription, also sometimes known as - broad - transcription, involves
representing speech using just a unique symbol for each phoneme of the language.

Define these linguistic terms: a) phoneme, b) phone, c) allophone.

Phonemes are the smallest units of sounds in a language. If a phoneme is changed, the word
may change, e.g., change the l sound in 'lack' to a b and the word changes to 'back'. A
phoneme may have more than one variant, called allophones.

Phono: The vibration or wave induced by an object. This illustration comes from acoustics
and highlights the physical characteristics of speech sounds. All sounds are instances of
phonemes in actual speech, when spoken. So, we can say that sounds are what we hear, we
hear with our ears, when we can interpret. We can observe some examples of sounds: [k], [b],
[f].

Allophones form different pronunciations of words that do not change their meaning of the
following words. We can find the following allophones:

• [pʰ] as in "pin" and [p] as in "spin"

• [l] as in "lean" and [ɫ] as in "fill"

TASK 2. Write the orthographic (written) representation of these English

sounds(transcription).

1. /maɪ əʊn ˈɪŋglɪʃ ˈvaʊəl saʊndz/

My own English vowel sounds.

2. /haɪ! gɒt ən ˈɪŋglɪʃ tɛkst ænd wɒnt tuː siː haʊ tuː prəˈnaʊns ɪt/

Hi! Got an English text and want to see how to pronounce it.

3. /ə ˈpɪkʧər ɪz wɜːθ ə ˈθaʊzənd wɜːdz/ /bɜːdz ɒv ə ˈfɛðə flɒk təˈgɛðə/

A picture is worth a thousand words. Birds of a feather flock together.

4. /aɪ wɪʃ ðɪs vəˈkeɪʃən wʊd gəʊ ɒn fəˈrɛvə. ɪts tuː bæd ðæt ɔːl gʊd θɪŋz mʌst kʌm t

uː ən ɛnd/

I wish this vacation would go on forever. it's too bad that all good things must come to an
end.