Phonetics

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Notes

Section 1: Transcription

Section 2: Anatomy

Section 3: Basic description of English sounds:

• English consonants
• English vowels

Section 4: English in more depth

Section 5: Acoustic phonetics

Section 6: Articulatory phonetics and the IPA (still very rough)

Practice exercises

Transcription practice

1. one-syllable words
2. two-syllable words
3. longer words

Discrimination drills

• [i] vs. [ɪ]
• [u] vs. [ʊ]
• [s] vs. [z]
• [θ] vs. [ð]

Consonant description drill

Practice at segmenting spectrograms

Some practice readings in IPA

For LING 138 students: the optional formant-measuring project

Other stuff

A still mostly empty glossary

Links

Last modified: November 27, 2005