Thursday 19 November 2015

ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION

The next spidergram explain the division of the english pronunciation in syllables and word stress, weak form and strong form, and in assimilation, elision and dissimilation.








HOW TO DIFFERENTIATE THE SOUNDS OF MINIMAL PAIRS, DIPHTHONGS AND TRIPHTHONGS?

IN THE NEXT CHART YOU CAN FIND THE WAY TO DIFFERENTIATE MINIMAL PAIRS, DIPHTHONGS AND TRIPHTHONGS.  ALSO YOU WILL SEE A LITTLE DEFINITION ABOUT  EACH SOUNDS.




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CONSONANTS SOUNDS

Consonants are classified according to manner of production, place of production, and voicing. 





In the next video you can see some examples about the consonants sounds.





VOWEL SOUNDS


What is a vowel sound? 


It is a sound in which there is a continuous vibration of the vocal folds and the airstream is allowed to escape from the mouth in an unobstructed manner, without any interruption.





Vowel classification

~TONGUE HEIGHT: It refers to how high or low our tongue is.

~TONGUE POSITION: When we make a vowel sound, our tongue is in a specific position inside our mouth.

~LIP ROUNDING: It refers to the position of our lips, when we make the vowel sounds.

~LENGTH: The first one is longer.



In the next video you can see some examples about the vowels sound.





INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ALPHABET

~The IPA is important because it allows everyone, not just linguistic to learn the pronunciation of an utterance- no matter what language is used.

~The IPA has one phoneme per sound. The complete IPA table includes all the phonemes for all known sounds in every language.




The next drawings are some examples about the vocal tract and the position of some sounds.










LINGUISTICS

In the next mind map you can find how is formed the Linguistics. Also you can find the difference between phonetics and phonology.