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Articulators 3
The 14 articulators 3
The articulators' roles 4
Vowels 4
Speech sounds: vowels vs consonants 4
Vowels classification 5
Primary cardinal vowel 5
Short vowels (Lax) 6
Long vowels (Tense) 6
Vowel chart with long and short vowels 7
Diphthongs 7
Triphthongs 9
Consonants 9
Classification 9
Voicing 9
Place of articulation (POA) 10
Manner of articulation (MOA) 11
Consonant chart 16
The syllable 18
Some terms 18
The structure of the English syllable 18
Peak 19
Onset 19
Coda 20
Sonority Hierarchy 21
Syllable division 21
Strong and weak syllables 21
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Syllabic consonants 23
Weak forms 24
2 reasons for having weak forms 24
Personal pronouns and possessive adjectives 25
Articles and linking words 25
Prepositions 25
Auxiliary verbs 26
Connected speech 26
Stress 27
Intonation 28
Particular cases 28
Declaratives 28
Imperatives 28
Exclamatives 28
Interrogatives 28
The functions of intonation 29
Morphemes 30
Definition 30
Difference between Word, Morpheme, and Syllable 30
Problems with the definition of morphemes 31
Morphs and allomorphs 31
Conditioning of allomorphs 32
Types of allomorph 32
Types of morpheme 33
Free and bound 33
Roots and affixes 33
Affixes 34
Prefixes vs. Suffixes 35
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Bases and stems 35
Lexical vs. grammatical morphemes 36
Derivational vs. inflectional affixes 36
Immediate constituents 38
Immediate constituents (IC) 38
IC division 38
Recommendations 39
Derivational rules (Morphological rules) 39
Words 40
Lexeme and word form (or word) 40
Characteristics of a word 40
Types of words 40
Simple words 40
Complex words 41
Compound words (Compounds) 41
Word formation 41
Derivation 41
Homophones of morphemes 41
Multiple derivation 43
Compounding 44
Structures of compounds 44
Types of compounds 44
Features of endocentric compounds 45
Compounding and Derivation 46
Conversion 47
Back formation (Reversion) 47
Clipping 47
Acronymy 48
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Blending 48
Phonetics deals with the production of speech sounds by humans, often without prior
knowledge of the language being spoken.
Phonology is about patterns of sounds, especially different patterns of sounds in different
languages, or within each language, different patterns of sounds in different positions in
words etc.
PHONETICS
Articulators
The 14 articulators
Link worksheet for this
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The articulators' roles
- Muscles in the larynx produce many different modifications in the flow of air from
the chest to the mouth
- Pharynx allows air to go through 2 ways: 11 or 12
- Soft palate (velum) controls the air escape (lower: stops through oral, escapes
through the nose)
Vowels
Speech sounds: vowels vs consonants
- Vowels are sounds in which there is no obstruction to the flow of air as it passes from
the larynx to the lips (air flows easily and freely, no obstruction, vocal tract open)
- Consonants: more muscles involved, exercise more effort, some obstructions in the
vocal tract
➔ The most important difference between vowels and consonants is not the way
that they are made, but their different distributions
+ A vowel can stand alone to form a syllable of its own, a consonant has
to go with a vowel to make a syllable
+ In a word, the number of vowels and syllables correspond whilst there
can be multiple consonants:
Vowels classification
- Vowels are classified based on certain qualities. These qualities are determined by
the position or movement of the articulators in the mouth.
- The three vowel qualities:
+ Tongue height The vertical distance between the upper surface of the
tongue and the palate (can be seen in the position of the jaw - jaw closed,
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+ Tongue backness The part of the tongue, between front and back, which is
raised highest (which part is curled back)
+ Lip rounding 2 khoé miệng có xu hướng bẹt ra hoặc lại gần nhau
- 1 to 5: unrounded
- 6 to 8: rounded
- Describing cardinal vowel quality:
+ [i]: close, front, unrounded
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● /ɪ/: not as close or front as [i], slightly spread
● /e/: front, between [e] and [ɛ], closer to [ɛ],
slightly spread
● /æ/: not as open or front as [a], slightly spread
● /ʌ/: central, more open than open-mid, neutral
● /ɒ/: between open and open-mid, not fully
back, slightly rounded
● /ʊ/: more open and more central than [u],
rounded
★ Teaching tips Using minimal pairs to teach pronunciation (same pronunciation, only
1 difference, and that difference is what we want to highlight). For example: mad -
mud, men - man,...
Long vowels (Tense)
- Produced with some tenseness in the articulation as you need to lengthen the sounds
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Vowel chart with long and short vowels
Diphthongs
- Functions as a vowel in one syllable
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Triphthongs
- A triphthong is a glide from one vowel to another and then to a third, all produced
rapidly and without interruption. (lướt trong cùng 1 syllable)
- The triphthongs can be looked on as being composed of the five closing diphthongs
described in the last section, with ə added on the end:
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Consonants
Classification
● Voicing
● POA
● MOA
Voicing
- Whether the sound made is voiced or voiceless
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Place of articulation (POA)
- The points at which the flow of air can be modified
- POA specifies where in the vocal tract the narrowing (or constriction) occurs
- 8 POAs, from the outermost articulator (lips) to the innermost (glottis):
Link worksheet
Alveolar between the blade or tip of the tongue /s/, /t/, /d/, sin, tea,
and the alveolar ridge /n/, /z/, /l/ dog, new,
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zoo, long
ship, chair,
Post-alveolar between the blade of the tongue and /ʃ/, /tʃ/, /ʒ/,
garage,
Palato-alveolar the palato-alveolar /dʒ/, /r/
jean, red
Examples of consonants
Classification based Description of MOA (Degree of
on MOA constriction) Voiceless Voiced
(Fortis) (Lenis)
/p/ /b/
complete closure to block airflow
Plosives (or Stops) /t/ /d/
-> sudden release of airflow
/k/ /ɡ/
/f/ /v/
close approximation -> air escapes
/θ/ /ð/
through a narrow passage, creating
Fricatives /s/ /z/
friction and hissing sound ->
/ʃ/ /ʒ/
continuant consonants
/h/
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The begin as plosives and end as
Affricates /tʃ/ /dʒ/
fricatives
/m/
Air escapes through the nose ->
Nasal /n/
lowered soft palate
/ŋ/
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Consonant chart
* Trái voiceless, phải voiced
MOA POA
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Labio- Alveola Palato-
Bilabial Dental Palatal Velar Glottal
dental r alveolar
Plosive pb td kg
Nasal m n ŋ
Fricative fv θð sz ʃʒ h
Affricate tʃ dF
Approxi
w r j
mant
Lateral l
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PHONOLOGY
The syllable
Some terms
➔ The peak is the most important as it is usually the vowel (in a word, the
number of vowels and syllables correspond)
Peak
- Usually vowel
- Isolated syllables do not end with short vowels, there must be a coda there
- A syllable containing only peak: minimum syllable (I, or,...)
- 1 vowel in 1 peak for 1 syllable
Onset
- Consonants (max 3)
- Zero/empty onset No consonants preceding the peak
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Coda
- Consonants (max 4)
- Zero coda No final consonant
* Với từ bond thì n có thể ở pre-final hoặc final, d có thể ở final hoặc post-final
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Sonority Hierarchy
- Refers to the loudness of the sounds
- The centre of the syllable is the loudest, then it becomes less loud onwards or
backwards
- Vowel > Approximants > Nasal > Fricatives > Plosives
Syllable division
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1. ə (‘schwa’) (ở đâu: xem trang 65, 66 Roach)
2. i (i.e. a close front unrounded vowel in the general area of /i:/ and /І/)
3. u (i.e. a close back rounded vowel in the general area of /u:/ and /ʊ/)
- Strong vowels are any other vowels except /ə/, /i/ and /u/.
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Syllabic consonants
- In a word like ‘bottle’ bɒt.l the weak second syllable contains no vowel at all, but
consists entirely of the consonant 1. We call this a syllabic consonant.
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- Common syllabic consonants:
+ Syllabic l
+ Syllabic n
+ Syllabic m, ŋ
+ Syllabic r
Weak forms
2 reasons for having weak forms
- Most native speakers of English find an "all-strong form" pronunciation unnatural
and foreign-sounding, something that most learners would wish to avoid
- Speakers who are not familiar with the use of weak forms are likely to have difficulty
understanding speakers who do use weak forms
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Personal pronouns and possessive adjectives
Prepositions
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Auxiliary verbs
Connected speech
Hiện tượng biến đổi âm khi phát âm một chuỗi âm
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Stress
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Intonation
Particular cases
Declaratives
- Fall: most cases, since we are just giving information
- Fall - rise: creating some suspense, the rise here may indicate that the speaker hasn't
finished speaking yet
- Low rise: question
- High rise: disbelief, surprise
Imperatives
- Fall: conveying definiteness/impatience/anger/…
- A low rise can soften an imperative
Exclamatives
- Fall (or rise - fall)
Interrogatives
- Yes/No:
+ Low rise
+ Fall: gently pressing
+ Alternative questions:
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● Rise khi nói những ý trong list
● Fall at the end (last item of the list): đã list hết choices
● Rise at the end (last item of the list): chưa list hết, có thể chọn cái khác
- Wh-:
+ Fall
+ Low rise: tentative
+ High rise: repetition (or highest rise for surprise)
- Tag:
+ Rise: The speaker is not sure and is demanding an answer
+ Fall: The speaker already knows the answer, wanting others to confirm or
agree with him/her
The functions of intonation
- Express attitudes
- Focus attention on particular words
- Indicate grammatical boundaries
+ Vd: Those who sold quickly made a profit, câu này có 2 kiểu ngắt trc hoặc sau
chữ "quickly"
- Convey discourse meaning (stress on information that is important or new)
MORPHOLOGY
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Morphemes
Definition
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Problems with the definition of morphemes
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Conditioning of allomorphs
- The condition of allomorphs: the presence of the surrounding areas
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Types of morpheme
Free and bound
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Affixes
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Prefixes vs. Suffixes
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Lexical vs. grammatical morphemes
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Criterion Deri Inflect
Productivity Not (take the case of nouns, some Very productive (apart from
is added with -ment, some -ion, exceptions, you just need to
some -ness) => have to memorize identify the grammatical purpose
and attach it with the appropriate
affix)
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Immediate constituents
- A hierarchy of two parts
➔ Successive division into two parts
➔ Immediate constituents
Immediate constituents (IC)
- Any of the two meaningful parts forming a larger linguistic unit
IC division
- The breaking down of a word into its ICs
- Example: un|gentle|man|ly
+ "gentle" and "man" are the ICs of "gentleman"
+ "gentleman" and "ly" are the ICs of "gentlemanly"
+ "un" and "gentlemanly" are the ICs of "ungentlemanly"
+ Hình ở trên là dùng để phân tích (chỉ vẽ khi đề yêu cầu)
+ Hình ở dưới là IC division diagram (khi vẽ thì đi từ ngoài vào)
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Recommendations
- The 1st cut: cutting off the inflectional suffix
- One of the ICs should be a free form (if possible)
- The meaning of the IC
- Examples:
* Đối với untruly, cả 2 cách trong hình đều đc, nhưng cách 2 đc chuộng hơn vì nó thể hiện
cách form từ thông thường (un- added to adj, -ly added to adv)
Derivational rules (Morphological rules)
- Rules that predict how words may be formed in English
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- Applied in IC division
- Examples:
+ un- + Adj = another adjective meaning "not Adj"
+ re- + Verb = another verb meaning "Verb again"
+ Verb + -able = an adjective meaning "can be Verb-ed"
Words
Lexeme and word form (or word)
- Lexeme
+ An abstract unit of meaning, a unit of morphological analysis in linguistics
+ Can occur in many different forms in actual spoken and written sentences
+ Regarded as the same lexeme even when inflected
+ Example: pockle, pockled, pockling are different realisations of the lexeme
POCKLE
- Word form (or word)
+ A particular physical realisation of that lexeme in speech or writing
Characteristics of a word
- Indivisibility: cannot be divided into two smaller free forms (without a change
in meaning)
- Positional mobility: when the word is used in a larger unit, it is mobile in that it has
some freedom to move around within a sentence
+ Slowly, he walked down the street.
+ He slowly walked down the street.
+ He walked slowly down the street.
+ He walked down the street slowly.
➔ A word is a minimal linguistic unit which is freely movable with a meaning
➔ A word is a free form that cannot be divided wholly into smaller free forms
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Types of words
- Based on the kinds of morphemes and the combinations of morphemes of which they
are composed
Simple words
- A single free base (= a free morpheme) (and a superfix) (± IS)
- Examples: stay, flea, long, spirit, eucalyptus, Connecticut, etc.
Complex words
- At least one bound morpheme as an IC (and a superfix) (± IS)
- Examples: supervise, contradict, inspire, teacher, uncertain, impossibility
- Complex words with a bound base (C-BB): have a bound form for each IC
- Complex words with a free base (C-FB): have one free form as an IC
Compound words (Compounds)
- They are similar to words
- They sometimes also resemble grammatical structures
- Fall somewhere between words and grammatical structures
- A compound has at least 2 free bases (± bound morphemes)
- Examples: honeymoon, ill-treated, washing machine
➔ An intermediate position between words and grammatical structures
- Phân biệt compounds và grammatical structures:
+ Phonological feature: Superfix và stress chỉ đúng với đa phần compound noun
chứ kh xuyên suốt và thống nhất
+ Syntactic feature:
● Compounds are solid blocks - they cannot be divided by the insertion
of any other elements
● Members of a compound cannot participate in a grammatical structure
+ Semantic feature: Compounds have specialized meanings
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Word formation
Derivation
- The process by which a new word is built from a base, usually through the addition
of an affix / the formation of new words by adding affixes to other words or
morphemes
➔ Derivation: base + derivational affixes
- 2 types of derivation: prefixation and suffixation
Homophones of morphemes
- Morphemes that are written/represented in similar ways, yet have different functions
and have different meanings.
- Examples (some forms can represent DS or IS):
+ Morpheme {-er}
● {-er1}: comparative adjective
● {-er2}: noun-forming
● {-er3}: verb-forming DS that means 'involving repetition' (chatter,
mutter, glitter, glimmer,…)
➔ However, this is problematic and raises questions about the remainders
in words of this class. (việc xem er là 1 verb-forming DS vẫn còn tranh
cãi và ngta kh chấp nhận rộng rãi er là morpheme)
★ Note "anger" là monomorphemic word, vì er kp là cái đc thêm vào "ang" trong word
formation process
★ Trường hợp của "cleaner", ta kh biết {-er} đc thêm vào clean là verb hay là adj
+ Morpheme {-ing}
● {-ing1}: verbal present participle
● {-ing2}: noun-forming (added to a verb) (droppings, findings,...)
● {-ing3}: adjective-forming (added to a verb) (interesting, amazing,...)
➔ Distinguishing verbal {-ing1} from adjectival {-ing3}:
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➢ Có đứng sau danh từ đc kh, nếu đc thì là verbal:
I saw a burning house. I saw a house burning.
I saw a charming girl. I saw a girl charming.
➢ Có modify đc từ đó bằng adv hay kh, nếu đc thì là adjective:
I saw a very charming girl.
I saw a very burning house.
+ Morpheme {-ed}
● {-ed1}: past simple tense
● {-ed2}: verbal past participle
● {-ed3}: adjective-forming
➔ Distinguishing verbal {-ed2} from adjectival {-ed3}: Tương tự như ở {-
ing}, xét nghĩa và có take modifier kh
+ Morpheme {-en}
● en + Adj: to make (enable, enrich, enlarge)
● en + Noun: to put in or into (encage, endanger)
+ Morpheme {-ly}
● {-ly1}: adverb-forming
● {-ly2}: adjective-forming
+ Morpheme {un-}:
● un + Adj: not
● un + Verb: reverse, do the opposite of
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Multiple derivation
- Khi thêm nhiều derivational affix vào 1 base
- Some derivational rules:
+ {re-} added to a verb, not an adj
Từ "reusable", {re-} đc thêm vào "use" trc, sau đó "reuse" mới đc thêm {-able}
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Compounding
- The process of joining two or more words to form another with specialized meaning
other than that of the word taken separately.
Structures of compounds
- Compound nouns:
+ N + N: bookcase, schoolboy, teapot,...
+ A + N: sweetheart, sweet potato, hothouse,...
+ V + N: breakfast,...
+ Prep + N: afterthought, underdog, outskirts,...
- Compound adjectives:
+ N + A: user-friendly, world-wide, foolproof,...
+ A + A: kind-hearted, short-lived, hard-hearted,...
+ Adv/Prep + Participle: everlasting, overwhelming, outspoken,...
- Compound verbs:
+ Prep/Adv + V: undertake, underestimate, upset,...
+ Compound verbs are derived chiefly from compound nouns by conversion:
blackmail, honeymoon
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Types of compounds
- Endocentric compound (headed compound)
+ Head the part that contains the basic meaning of the whole compound, and is
usually on the right of the compound
+ Modifier the part that restricts this meaning
+ Endocentric compounds have the same part of speech as their heads
+ The status of the compound is determined by one of its two
components (head)
- Exocentric compound (headless compound)
+ No formal head, and its meaning often cannot be transparently guessed from
its constituent parts
+ The word class is determined lexically, disregarding the class of the
constituents
+ Examples: white-collar, must-have, lazybones, pickpocket, cutthroat,...
➔ Most English compounds are endocentric.
Features of endocentric compounds
- Syntactically:
+ Inflection is done to the head and percolates to the entire compound
● bookcase → bookcases
● passer-by → passers-by
● sportsman → sportsmen
- Semantically:
+ Indicates the sub-grouping within a more general class
● Từ scissor-handle cho ta biết trong nhóm các handle thì có 1 cái loại
gọi là scissor-handle
● Từ apple juice cũng có thể đc giải thích tương tự
- Structurally:
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+ A compound never has more than 2 constituents → When there are more
to form a noun)
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Conversion
- Words may be formed without modifying the form of the input word that serves as
the base
- Conversion có thể đgl zero derivation hoặc zero affixation
+ burglar → burgle
+ babysitter → babysit
+ dry-cleaning → dry-clean
dry-clean is a compound word that is formed from an existing compound noun
+ television → televise
+ lazy → laze
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Clipping
- Cutting off the beginning or the end of a word or both, leaving a part to stand for the
whole
- The resultant part is called a clipped word
- Reduces a longer word, doesn't increase the vocabulary
- Used in casual speech
- Examples:
+ doctor → doc
+ examination → exam
range of meaning của 2 từ có khác nhau một chút
+ dormitory → dorm
+ Professor → Prof.
+ omnibus → bus
+ telephone → phone
+ influenza → flu
+ refrigerator → fridge
Acronymy
- A word is formed from the initials or beginning segments of a succession of words.
- Written in capital letters or as common nouns
- Created to help remember organisations in speech or in writing more easily
- Rules of pronunciation:
+ 2 letters: pronounce từng letter
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+ 3 or more: có thể form thành syllable thì đọc luôn, khi kh đc thì pronounce
từng letter
Blending
- The fusion of two words into one, usually the first part of one word with the last part
of the other.
- The blend has the meaning of two words.
- Examples:
+ brunch = breakfast + lunch
+ bit = binary + digit
+ Singlish = Singaporean + English
+ emoticon = emotion + icon
+ spork = spoon + fork
+ multiversity = multi + university
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