Phonetics (Week 4)

Phonemic symbols are placed between slant brackets / /.

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Phonetic transcription contains much more information than phonemic transcription.

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/p/ and /b/ are fricative consonants.

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/p/ and /b/ are bilabial plosive consonants.

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/aɪ/-find and /ʊə/-tour are diphthong vowels in the IPA.

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/i:/-week, and /ɑ:/-hard, are short vowels in the IPA.

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In English, an aspirated p (as in pot ) and unaspirated p (as in top) are allophones of the phoneme /p/.

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[ɪ] is a close front unrounded vowel.

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'comfortable' can be transcribed as '/ˈkʌmftəbl/'.

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'food' can be transcribed as '/fuːd/' and 'foot' as '/fʊt/'.

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