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An Introduction

to the Phonetics
of English
Roland Raoul Kouassi
FHB University of Cocody, Abidjan
December 2021
Aim: the students will learn the basics of English
speech sounds

Objective 1: they will be able to account for the


basic concept of phonetics
Course Objective 2: they will be able to account for the
units of spoken English
description
Objective 3: they will be able to produce, and
discriminate speech sounds accurately

Objective 4: they will be able to describe, define,


and transcribe English sounds accurately
Ashby, M. and Maidment, J. 2005. Introducing Phonetic Science.
Cambridge: CUP

Catford, J.C. 2002. A Practical Introduction to Phonetics. Oxford:


OUP

Clark, J; Yallop, C.; Fletcher, J. 2007. An Introduction to Phonetics


and Phonology. Oxford: Blackwell

Jones, Daniel. 2011 [1917]. English Pronouncing Dictionary. 18th


Ed. By Peter Roach et al. CUP
References Knight, R.-A. 2012. Phonetics: A Coursebook. Cambridge: CUP

Ladefoged, P. 2005. A Course in Phonetics. 2nd Ed. Thompson


Learning

Ogden, R. 2009. An Introduction to English Phonetics. Edinburgh:


Edinburgh University Press

Roach, P. 2009. English Phonetics and phonology: A Practical


Course. Cambridge: CUP
Brief Content

The basic concepts of Phonetics

The phonatory structure

The Speech Sounds of English

Producing, Describing and Defining Speech Sounds

Broad Phonetic Transcription


Preliminaries

Language is naturally oral.

This oral feature is called speech

Sound is the basic variable of speech.

Regular practice of speech sounds guarantees a better


communicative competence and performance
What is Phonetics?
✤ Phonetics is the scientific study of speech
sounds (phones).

✤ The phonetician studies all speech sounds


occurring during talks and interactions, that is
the sounds of the speech chain.

✤ S/he investigates what sounds of speech are;


how they are produced by the speaker; how
they are processed by the listener; as well
as the disorders or pathologies that may
occur.
Importance of Phonetic Study in EFL

enough through thorough thought bough


think this those thong
church chemistry loch Cheryl
blood book food
put rude but
The Phonatory Structure
The Branches of Phonetics
Phonetics is divided into three main branches:

Articulatory phonetics or the physiology of speech sound production:


deals with how the human organs produces speech sounds (brain/mind
to speech organs)
Auditory Phonetics or the Aural Dynamics of Speech sound perception:
deals with how the human auditory system perceives, processes and
decodes speech sounds (auditory system to brain/mind)
Acoustic Phonetics or the Physics of Speech sounds: is concerned with
describing the different kinds of acoustic signals that the activity of the
vocal organs produces.
The Individual Sounds of English
Consonants
THE + VOICE + PLACE OF
ARTICULATION + MANNER OF
ARTICULATION +
CONSONANT SOUNDS

Defining Practice.
Consonants

[r] [ʒ] [w] [v] [b] [ʃ] [θ]


Vowels
THE + HIGH/LOW (or
CLOSE/OPEN) + FRONT/BACK +
TENSE/LAX +
ROUNDED/UNROUNDED +
VOWEL SOUND

Defining
vowel Practice.
sounds
[Ɛ] [ə] [ɑ:] [æ] [ɒ] [ʊ]
[ɔ:]
Practice
pat part port pot putt put poot pert Pete pit pout

cat cart court cot cut coot Kurt skeet kit scout

hat heart hot hut hoot hurt heat hit

bat bart bort bot but boot beat bit bout

at art ought eat it out

æ ɑ: ɔ: ɒ ʌ ʊ u: ɜ: i: ɪ aʊ
Find examples

[æ] [ɛ] [aɪ] [eɪ]


[ɔɪ] [ɪə] [ʊə] [ɜː]
heat eat
hill ill
Practice [h] hat at
hit it
hot ought
heart art
hear ear
hair air
had add
hall all
Beware! there is a SILENT [h] in the following words:
honor, honorable, honored, honoring …
hour, hourly, hourlong, hourglass
honest, honesty, honestly
heir, heiress, heirdom, heirless, heir-at-law, heirship, heirloom
herb (some US speakers)
Practice [θ] and [ð]

[θ] : path; thin; thirst;


[ð]: the; this; than; that; those…
Practice [r]

Rich; rat; route; raining; rest;


arrest; pirate…
Practice [i:] and [ɪ]

[i:] : feel; seat; deal; kneel; eat


[ɪ]: fill; sit; dill; nil; it
Practice [ə]

A man; about; approve; allow; the cat;


sister; better…
Broad phonetic transcription

Broad transcription consists in writing down the fundamental – usually


segmental – units of a word a sentence, a paragraph, or a text.
Although we generally do not include details such as prosodic features, we may
add some stress units or breaks.
Remember: PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION ARE PUT BETWEEN SQUARE BRACKET
‘[ ]’ . SLANTS (/ /) MAY BE ALLOWED FOR BROAD TRANSCRIPTION.
Examples
Cold [kəʊld] , part [pɑ:t] , storks [stɔ:ks] , church [tʃɜ:tʃ] or [tʃɝtʃ] ,
language [laŋgwɪʤ]
The end

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