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    This document provides an overview of phonetics and discusses several key concepts: 1) It defines phonetics as dealing with sounds and their organization, and linguistics as dealing with language structure grammatically and semantically. 2) It describes the speech chain and identifies the articulators (tongue, lips etc.) and resonators (nose, mouth, pharynx) involved in speech. 3) It discusses vowels and contrasts them with consonants, and introduces the 12 cardinal and 8 diphthong vowel sounds in English.

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    BASICS OF PHONETICS I

    2021
    Essential Theoretical Concepts
    • Class 1:
    • Language as Human Vocal Noise represented
    in symbols
    • PHONETICS: deals with sounds and how they
    are organized
    • LINGUISTICS: deals with how language is
    structured grammatically and semantically
    The Speech Chain
    Class 2
    • ORGANS OF SPEECH - FUNCTIONS
    • The difference between articulators and
    resonators
    • Articulators:
    • Resonators:

    • NOSE
    • MOUTH
    • PHARYNX
    VOWELS

    • What is a vowel?
    • In what does a vowel differ
    from a consonant?
    CARDINAL VOWELS
    • They establish limit positions
    ENGLISH VOWELS
    • There are 12
    ENGLISH DIPHTHONGS
    • They are 8. - Glide
    • Elements: peak and valley of prominence
    • Length: Wide or narrow
    • Direction: Centring, rising or falling
    • IMPORTANT: THERE ARE NO RISING
    DIPHTHONGS IN ENGLISH
    CLOSING DIPHTHONGS
    CENTRING DIPHTHONGS
    TRIPHTHONGS
    • All closing diphthongs + Ə
    LEVELLING
    • Watch this Prezi Presentation to see
    what happens when triphthongs are
    pronounced fast!
    • https://prezi.com/sjww8t6lyuwx/trip
    hthongs/

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