SPCH 484 Feb 1

Typical (Normal) Aspects of Articulation - Part 3

SPCH 484

February 1, 2023

​Today's Agenda:

1. Welcome/Greetings/Celebrations

2. English Consonant Sound Review

3. English Vowel Sound Review

4. Practice Phonetic Transcriptions

Consonant Sound Review

Multiple Choice

The primary articulators are the tongue, lips, jaw, and:

• Velopharynx

• Larynx

• Teeth

• Cheeks

Multiple Choice

A bilabial place of articulation suggests that which of the following articulators are involved?

• Lips and teeth

• Velum and tongue

• Tongue and lips

• Both lips

Multiple Choice

The phoneme /s/ has what type of placement?

• Alveolar

• Bilabial

• Linguadental

• Velar

Multiple Choice

The phoneme /g/ is from what manner class?

• Fricative

• Stop

• Affricate

• Glide

English Consonant Sound Review

​Discussion Questions:

1. What is the difference between fricatives and affricates?

2. What is the difference between a rhotic and flap /r/?

3. How to pronounce the voiced and voiceless /th/?

English Vowel Sound Review

English Vowel Sound Review

Produced with an open vocal tract; The vocal tract is open from the vocal folds to the lips, with no points of constriction

​Vowels

Mostly produced with some constriction of the vocal tract

​Consonants

​English Vowel Sound Review

• All vowels are voiced; the sound source for vowels is the vocal folds

• Resonance patterns for the vowels are shaped by the vocal tract

​English Vowel Sound Review

• For general phonetic purposes, vowel production can be described by specifying the positions of just two articulators: tongue and lips

• Vowel Characteristics: Rounded and unrounded - typically back or central vowels

• Practice saying the words "he" and "who" while pressing your finger against your lip

​English Vowel Sound Review

• Vowel Characteristics: Tongue Dimensions (Motions of the Tongue)

• Front-back: Say the words "he, who, map, mop"

• High-Low: Say the words "heave-have; who-ha"

• Four extreme positions of the tongue: Front, High, Back, Low

​English Vowel Sound Review

• Tense/lax qualities

• Tense: longer in duration and can invovle a greater degree of muscular tension

• Lax: relatively short in duration and involves less muscular effort

​English Vowel Sound Review

• Group Activity Instructions:

  • Watch YouTube Video

  • Complete the English Vowel Sounds Review

  • Practice saying the vowel sounds individually

  • identify the vowel characteristics for each vowel (tongue position, lip rounding/unrounding, and tense/lax qualities

Diphthongs

​Diphthongs

• Dipthongs are closely related to and produced similarly to vowels

• Dipthongs also serve as a nuclei for syllables

• Dipthongs are typically produced as a combination of two vowels (onglide and offglide) and are transcribed with two digraphs (two symbols)

• Refer to Figure 2.9 (p. 20) and p. 21

​Diphthongs

• The diphthongs /eɪ/ and /oʊ/ are exceptions because they exist in monophthongal (single vowel) forms as well.

• The diphthongal forms /eɪ/ and /oʊ/ occur in strongly stressed syllables

• The monophthongal (single vowel) forms /e/ and /o/ occur in weakly stressed syllables

​Diphthongs

• For example, in the word vacation, the first syllable (weakly stressed) is produced with /e/ and the second syllable (strongly stressed) is produced with /eɪ/

• Finish YouTube Video & Practice Transcriptions

​Closing/Homework:

• Complete: English Vowel Sound Video - Due: 2/8/23, 11:59 PM