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Language and Human Mind
, Winter 2024
Week 6
Due: Feb 16 (late submission deadline: Feb 23, 5pm)
WORKSHEET 5: Phonetics
Official IPA chart:
International Phonetic Alphabet (revised to 2020)
IPA symbol bank:
θ ð ɾ ɹ ʃ ʒ ŋ ʔ t͡ʃ d͡ʒ l̩ m̩ n̩ ɹ̩ p
h
, t
h
, k
h
l̥ ɪ ɛ æ ɨ ə ʌ ʊ ɔ ɑ
IPA online keyboard: https://ipa.typeit.org/
IPA charts: https://seeingspeech.ac.uk/ipa-charts/
https://www.ipachart.com/
https://sail.usc.edu/span/rtmri_ipa/pk_2015.html
(from the official IPA chart
)
(from the lecture slide)
(from the official IPA chart
)
1)
a) Try to come up with an English word that has a very surprising spelling, or a spelling that you think does not match the word’s pronunciation. Write one (or a few) such words below: Yacht
Queue
b) Considering what you know about English spelling both from lecture and from this activity, why is the IPA useful/necessary?
2)
Using the IPA Chart, describe the following sounds. Give three-part descriptions for consonants and four-part descriptions for vowels. Example: /p/ is a voiceless bilabial stop
or /u/ is high, back, tense and rounded.
1. [b]
●
Voicing: Voiced (vocal cords vibrate)
●
Place: Bilabial (articulated with both lips)
●
Manner: Stop (complete closure of the vocal tract, then release)
2. [ŋ]
Voicing: Voiced (vocal cords vibrate)
Place: Velar (articulated with the back of the tongue against the soft palate)
Manner: Nasal (air escapes through the nose)
3. [θ]
●
Voicing: Voiceless (vocal cords do not vibrate)
●
Place: Dental (articulated with the tongue against the upper front teeth)
●
Manner: Fricative (constriction of airflow, creating friction)
4. [ɹ]
●
Voicing: Voiced (vocal cords vibrate)
●
Place: Alveolar (articulated with the tongue near the alveolar ridge)
●
Manner: Approximant (articulators approach each other but do not create complete closure)
5. [æ]
●
Height: Low (tongue is positioned low in the mouth)
●
Frontness: Front (tongue is positioned towards the front of the mouth)
●
Rounding: Unrounded (lips are not rounded)
6. [ɛ]
●
Height: Open-mid (tongue is positioned between open and mid)
●
Frontness: Front (tongue is positioned towards the front of the mouth)
●
Rounding: Unrounded (lips are not rounded)
7. [i]
●
Height: High (tongue is positioned high in the mouth)
●
Frontness: Front (tongue is positioned towards the front of the mouth)
Rounding: Unrounded (lips are not rounded)
3)
Give the IPA symbol for each of the following sounds:
1. voiceless bilabial stop: [p]
2. voiced alveolar tap: [ɾ]
3. voiced postalveolar affricate: [dʒ]
4)
One of the sounds in each row is not like the others. Can you guess which one? Why?
1.
[p b t d k ɡ s ʔ]
a.
[ʔ], because it is not produced by the tongue or lips
2.
[ʊ ɜ ɔ u]
a.
[ɜ], it is an unrounded vowel unlike the rest (which are rounded vowels)
3.
[θ ð s ʃ f]
a.
[ð] because it is the only voiced fricative 5)
Common IPA errors: Which one is right?
1.
cheese
: [
ʧiz
] or [chiz]
2.
fringe
: [
fɹɪnʤ
] or [fɹɪnj]
3.
cat
: [
cæt
] or [kæt]
4.
cute
:
[
kjut
]
or [kut]
6)
Common IPA errors
Try to find the errors in the transcriptions of the consonant sounds in the following words. In each word, there is one error
, indicating an impossible pronunciation of that word for a native speaker of English of any variety. Correct the transcription!
1. crime [cɹaɪm]
2. wives [waɪvs]
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