Lesson 2 EEd 111

Phonetics
-the sounds of language

When you know a language, you know the sounds of that language

Phonetics
-Everyone who knows a language knows how to segment sentences into words, and words
into sounds.
-We know which aspects of pronunciation are linguistically important and which are
not
-In general, languages differ in terms of the inventory of speech sounds that words
are built on

-how are you?

-how cough are you?

Tsk is a speech sound in languages spoken in Africa

More definition of phonetics

-this is the inventory of speech sounds
-this is the science that attempts to describe all of the sounds used in all
languages of the world

Types
1. acoustic phonetics
-focused on the physical properties of sound
2.auditory phonetics
-focuses on how listeners perceive sounds
3.Articulatory phonetics
-focuses on how the vocal tract produces the sounds of language

Orthography (alphabetic spelling)

-a way of writing in a language
-does not reprent the sounds of a language in a way
*frustrating
*inadequate

Example
-Did he believe that Caesar could see
the people seize the seas?
-The silly amoeba stole the key to the
machine.

Example
shoot character Thomas
either deal rough
physics nation

Example
x – is made up of two sounds
sex=seks

Example (silent letters)

mnemonic autumn ghost
pterodactyl write corps
sword knot bough
resign island debt
Struggle
1. one sound, different spellings
2. one letter, different sounds
3. 2 letters = 1 sound
4. 1 letter = 2 sound
5. silent letter

George Bernard Shaw

- complained that spelling was so inconsistent

GHOTI is pronounced just like FISH

International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)

- developed in 1888 by the International

Phonetic Association
- used to symbolize the sounds of all languages
- one sound-one symbol correspondence
- includes ordinary letters and invented symbols
- represents the fundamental sounds of all languages