Phonetics I - Schedule

ENS101G Phonetics I Summer 2009
Videos, slides, exercises.
Pétur Knútsson

Please note that this is a modified version of the Autumn 2008 schedule. It is divided into 12 weeks, but you should be prepared to take it in a more concentrated fashion.

	Link to further information on the topic.
	slides used in the lectures.
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Week	Reading	Workbook and CD tracks	webpages	videos of lectures	slides used in the lectures
				Note on how to access videos ...	exercises and assignments note...
1	Roach 2 3.1 Wells 3.1	1. VOWELS 1.1 Lax vowels 1.2 Tense vowels CD 1 tracks: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8	RP or GA? L₁ and L₂	Preview video for first week Class video, first week, session 1. Class video, first week, session 2.	Introduction (1) Introduction (2) Slideshow on RP, GA, International English
2	Roach 3.2 3.3 5 Wells 3.1 Diphthongs 2.2 2.3	1.3 Diphthongs CD 1 tracks: 9 10 11 12	VOWELS LAX VOWELS	Preview video for second week Class video, seond week, session 1 Class video, second week, session 2.<br>	slide on exercise 1 Slide on Vowels and consonants Slide on lax vowels
					Exercise 1
3	Wells Short vowel, long vowel Voiced and voiceless Clipping	1.4 Vowel length 1.4.1 Lax vowels are always short 1.4.2 Clipping CD 1 tracks: 13 14	TENSE VOWELS DIPHTHONGS British and American vowels summary PHONEMES A note on American phonology BATH words STRUT and LOT VOWEL LENGTH Lax vowels are always short Clipping	Preview video for third week Class video.	Slide on tense vowels Vowels summary Diphthongs British and American vowels
					Excercise 2 TONS of ROCK STRUT and LOT words Exercise 3 FANCY DANCES quick video on these exercises
4	Roach 9 Wells 3.1 3.3 Stress	1.5 Weak vowels 1.5.1 Stressed and unstressed syllables 1.5.2 The weak vowel 1.5.3 as a weak vowel 1.5.4 Tensing of and CD 1 tracks: 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23	WEAK VOWELS Stressed and unstressed syllables The weak vowel ('schwa') as a weak vowel Tensing of and	Class video	Phonemes Vowel Length (Note: this is not quite the same slide as I used in class. I'll discuss the differences next week.)
					Exercise 4 Workbook excercise: Exercise 8, p.13, CD track 1-12, answers p. 51-2.
5 1 Oct	Roach 4 Wells 3.2 Articulation Aspiration Glottal stop T-voicing Voiced and voiceless Note on Wells's LPD	2 CONSONANTS 2.1 Plosives (Stops) 2.1.1 Plosives at the beginning of words 2.1.2 Plosives at the end of words 2.1.3 Plosives in the middle of words 2.1.4 Icelandic preaspiration 2.1.5 Icelandic unvoicing CD2 tracks: 1 2 3 4 5 6	CONSONANTS PLOSIVES (STOPS) Voicing (fortis & lenis Icelandic preaspiration Icelandic unvoicing	Class video	stress and weak vowels Introductory slide on consonants: plosives
					Exercise 5
6 8 Oct	Roach 6 Wells 3.2	2.2 Fricatives and affricates 2.2.1 Sibilants 2.2.2 h CD2 tracks: 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17	Fricatives and affricates Sibilants s/z and inflections Glottal fricative: h	Class video VOT (summary)	fortis and lenis fricatives sibilants
					Assignment 1 Exercise 6
7	Roach 7 Wells 3.2 Syllabic consonants	2.3 Nasals 2.3.1 Bilabial, alveolar and velar nasals 2.3.2 Syllabic n 2.4 The lateral: l 2.4.1 Light l 2.4.2 Unvoiced l 2.4.3 Dark l 2.4.4 Syllabic l CD2 tracks: 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27	Nasals The lateral: l Light l when followed by a vowel or [j] Unvoiced l following p or k Dark l when no vowel follows Syllabic consonants	-s endings - RULES from last year> Class video	nasals the lateral
					Assignment 2 Answers to Assignment 2 Exercise 7
8	Roach 7 Wells 3.2 Liquids R-liaison	(For -ed, see track 22 on CD 3) 2.5 Postalveolar approximant 2.5.1 Prevocalic 2.5.2 Rhotic and non-rhotic accents 2.5.3 Linking 2.5.4 Unvoiced r 2.5.5 Affrication of tr and dr CD2 tracks: 28 29 30 31 32 33	-ed inflections Approximants Postalveolar approximant: r Prevocalic r Rhotic and non-rhotic accents Linking r Unvoiced r following p t or k	Class video.	-s and-ed approximants r
					Exercise 8
9	Roach 7 Wells 3.2	2.6 Glides:j,w 2.6.2 tj, dj 2.6.3 Bilabial approximant 2.6.4 w and wh CD2 tracks: 34 35 36 37 38	Glides: j, w ( and r again) Affrication of tj, dj Bilabial approximant w and wh	Class video	v and w Unvoicing of r,l,j,w after fortis plosives glides segmental, suprasegmental, prosodic text
					Assignment 3
10	Roach 9 12	3 SENTENCE STRESS AND WEAK FORMS 3.1 Placement of sentence stress. CD3 tracks: 1 2	SENTENCE STRESS AND WEAK FORMS Sentence Stress Isochrony Weak & strong vowels again	Class video (NB sound missing for 1st 10 minutes of second session) Second session with sound Finding sentence stresses	word stress sentence stresses
					extra transcription exercises
11	Roach 12	3.2 Weak forms 3.2.1 Weak forms with (a,b,c,d,e) 3.2.2 Weakforms with / 3.2.3 Weak forms which drop h CD3 tracks: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22	Placement of sentence stress Weak forms Look-up table of weak forms	Class video	placement of sentence stress weak forms
					Assignment 4
12	Exam 2006 Answers Exam 2007 Answers class video final slide: examination

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