Pronunciation Practice

Semester 2 Week 1
Engliana
3 credit-course

Grading
Final test 50%
Midterm test 30%
Class participation 20%, it comprises:
Attending class regularly
Weekly assignments
Team project (Research Project 1 and 2)

Research Project
1: 3D Articulatory Anatomy
Model

A group of no more than 5

people to construct a 3D
sagittal section model
Any kind of medium, incl.
paper mache, plaster, or
wires
The 3D replica should
measure a normal size
human head & a normal
sized vocal tract

2: Voice Recording
Record your voice reading
the given list of words and
sentences in one time.
Listen & analyse your own
sound production
Use any recording
application (or Audacity) &
save as an mp3 file

Weekly Assignments
Assignment will be assigned every TWO
weeks.
Each of the assignment should be uploaded
on the class website on the 2nd Monday and
4th Monday (subject to be announced)

Excerpt taken from A Practical Guide to Understanding Basic English

Phonetics and Phonology
(Faizah Sari, 2011)

GETTING TO KNOW THE SOUNDS

Getting to know the sounds

Communication we
produce sequences of
sounds joined together
to make up words,
phrases, & sentences
Watch the clip from
Pink Panther movie

Major branches in linguistics

1) Phonetics individual speech sounds. How
each sound in English is produced in the
organ of speech & how it is perceived by the
hearer
2) Phonology the science of speech sound
patterns. How speech sounds behave in
utterance & communication

Why studying sounds systematically...

To help us understand the various aspects of sounds in a
language, in this matter....English language

To gain better perspective of English sounds & the

English language

To appreciate sounds as intrinsic values of the language

by indentifying the characteristics of each sound

To improve our communication in English

Steps in getting to know the sounds

Look into each individual sound & describe how
it is articulated in different parts of the mouth
and throat
Consonant, vowels (segmentals)

Examine the aspect outside the segmentals, that

is the sequences of sounds
Stress, intonation (suprasegmentals)

GETTING TO KNOW THE

ARTICULATORS

1. Standard British,
2. Cockney,
3. British RP,
4. Irish,
5. Northern Irish,
6. Scottish,
7. Italian,
8. German,
9. Czech,
10. Russian,
11. French,
12. Australian,
13. New Zealand,
14. Heavy Ocker Australian,
15. Texan,
16. Californian,
17. Northwest,
18. Toronto,
19. Brooklyn,
20. Deep Southern, and
21. Trans-Atlantic.
Available online at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=3UgpfSp2t6k

..\..\..\..\..\Audio &
Videos\21 Accents.mp4

The articulatory anatomy

http://www-01.sil.org/mexico/ling/glosario/e005bi-organsart.htm

Airflow directions
Oral sound

Nasal sound

air from the lungs

air from the lungs

to the opening between

the vocal cords

to the opening between

the vocal cords

travels up the pharynx

travels up the pharynx

mouth

nose

Online practice
Go to
http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/frameset.html

Online practice (contd)

Go to http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/johnm/ips/chapter3/ips34.htm

UNDERSTANDING THE PHONETIC

ALPHABET & PHONETIC DESCRIPTION

The phonetic alphabet

Purpose: to help language Rs describe the
sounds of languages in the world
It is arranged systematically based on the
point of view of the organs that produce a
particular sound

No need capitalisation

Youre going to explore....

25 consonants

12 vowels

Where to look for the phonetic

symbols
Open Word Document
Find the Insert button
Click the Symbol button, select Lucinda Sans
Unicode
Choose the phonetic symbols & press Insert

RESEARCH PROJECT 1

3D Articulatory Anatomy Model

Check the following links:
http://anatomy.med.umich.edu/atlas/rsa3p1.html
http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/#
http://www.speech.kth.se/multimodal/vocaltract.html
http://www.sil.org/mexico/ling/glosario/E005bi-OrgansArt.htm
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~krussll/phonetics/anatomy/anat
omy.html