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WorksheetsSessions 3 & 4 phonetics
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 41mins
Watch, read, and comment on the impact of tech on phonetics studies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYnPA7IXFIU
(this link takes you to another cool video, which shows configs of vocal folds at various pitches)
"X-ray filming is even today effectively the only imaging technique that allows all the most important speech articulators (jaw, tongue, lips, soft palate, larynx) to be captured in a single view at a framerate that is reasonably adequate for speech. However, in most countries it is no longer considered ethically acceptable to make cineradiographic recordings of speech with healthy subjects, unless there is some clear clinical indication for the recordings. Thus existing x-ray films form an irreplaceable source of information on speech."
Which part of the vocal tract is primarily responsible for producing nasal sounds?
Teeth
Tongue
Velum
Pharynx
Check out this interesting video on vowels and take at least 3 key notes on the key vowel properties discussed.
Which vowel sound is produced with the highest point of the tongue closest to the palate?
/e/
/i/
/ɔ/
/a/
Match these letter-like vowel sounds with their corresponding descriptions.
[y]
Close front rounded
[o]
Close-mid back rounded
[a]
Open back unrounded
[e]
Close-mid front unrounded
[u]
Close back rounded
What's this sound?
What's this sound?
Group accordingly
ʏ
ɤ
ɵ
œ
ø
ɔ̃
ɒ
ɨ
ɛ
ʌ
æ
ɪ
j
θ
ʒ
w
ʋ
ɣ
Check out this interesting video on consonants and take at least 3 key notes on the key vowel properties discussed.
The sound represented by "th" in "think" is a (a) fricative, while in "they" a (b) one.
Pinpoint where the uvular is.
hint: [x]
What's this sound?
What's this sound?
Look at the hidden spoken message in Mandarin Chinese (pre-transcribed into IPA)
[nimˈt͡ʂ̩ʰː lə mɐ]
Translate the note into English and then further transcribe it into Australian English IPA using HCE system (https://australianlinguistics.com/speech-sounds/vowels-au-english/)
For your own conlang, select at least 5 sounds vowels and 5 consonants.
Remember: you might want to make sure they're not too similar for easier pronunciaiton/distinction
(but this is not a rule!)
(for IPA, you can copy and paste from https://ipa.typeit.org/full/)
To get you started on your mid-term report, what phonetic fact(s) have you discovered for your chosen conlang to be analysed?
(comparing with the languages what we've discussed in class)
Record yourself saying these 3 phrases strictly following the IPA transcriptions shown below.
[gdæɪ]
[hɛɔ ˈaːjə]
[ae ˈdɐʉ ˈnɐʉ]
Do you know what you've just said?
Almost there!
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