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| Phonetics & Phonology 1 (winter semester) | ||
| 1. | Introduction | |
| 2. | Accents, phonems and phonemic transcription | |
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Look up pronunciation of words in BrE/AmE in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary: http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/ |
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Look up pronunciation of words in BrE/AmE in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/ |
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Look up pronunciation of words as well as proper nouns in Howjsay dictionary: http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=word%20processing&submit=Submit |
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| 3. | The production of speech sounds | |
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Watch English phonetician Adrian Underhill present RP vowels & consonants: |
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| 4. | Long vowels, diphthongs and triphthongs | |
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Listen to English vowels & consonants in Adrian Underhill's interactive phonemic chart: http://www.onestopenglish.com/upload/public/attachments/37/osephonemicchart.swf |
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| • | Review, type in and copy and paste the complete set of IPA symbols: | |
| http://weston.ruter.net/projects/ipa-chart/view/keyboard/ | ||
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Learn & test yourself on the IPA symbols: |
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Watch a teacher explaing the difference between /ɪ/ and /i:/ |
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| 5. | Voicing and consonants | |
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Test yourself labelling English consonants in John Maidment's Fonetic Flash: |
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Check out this interactive tutorial on English plosives on the UCL SIPhTrA webpage: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wtutor?tutorial=siphtra/plostut1/plostut1.htm |
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| 11. | Stress in simple words | |
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Practise identifying primary stress in words & get instant feedback on David Brett's website: http://davidbrett.uniss.it/phonology/frame%20for%20index%20of%20stress%20exercises.htm |
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Phonetics & Phonology 2 (summer semester) |
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| 3. | Weak forms 1 | |
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Practise transcription of weak forms in connected speech & get instant feedback on David Brett's website http://davidbrett.uniss.it/phonology/transcription%20exercises/index_of_transcription_exercises.htm |
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| 5. | Problems in phonemic analysis 1 | |
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Practise phonemic transcription of short phrases & sentences on David Brett's website: http://davidbrett.uniss.it/phonology/transcription%20exercises/index_of_transcription_exercises.htm |
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Read on and listen to the alveolar tap/flap in a Wikipedia article: |
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Aspects of connected speech 1 |
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Whatch a teacher explaining stress-timing in a video: |
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| 9. | Aspects of connected speech 2 | |
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Read, listen and do excercises on yod coalescence on David Brett's website: http://davidbrett.uniss.it/phonology/notes%20and%20exercises/yod%20coal/yod_coalescence.htm |
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Read, listen and do excercises on elision on David Brett's website: http://davidbrett.uniss.it/phonology/notes%20and%20exercises/elision/elision.htm |
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| • | Read, listen and do excercises on r-linking on David Brett's website: | |
| 10. | Intonation 1 | |
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Listen to the explanation of 7 nuclear tones by an English language teacher: |
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| 12. | Functions of intonation |
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Learn about the the basic sentence intonation patterns (falling & rising tones) in an IELTS video (Australian English) |
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| • | Watch this four-part video explaining basic sentence intonation patterns (American English) | |
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PART 1: What intonation is, falling & rising intonation |
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PART 2: Falling & rising intonation + practice with falling intonation |
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PART 3: Rising intonation pattern |
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PART 4: Practice with intonation in questions |
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