George Washington University

Student Presentation Camille & Sherle's PowerPoint Presentation as web page

Articulatory Phonetics

Let's Learn IPA!

• Cool chart with spoken examples

• IPA "Sammy" See the places of articulation, manner, etc LIVE!

Other ways to produce sound:

Ingressive

• clicks
  
• Xhosa examples
• X-Ray of a click
• Nama folk tale (Explanation of symbols for different clicks)
• ku!khaasi lullaby (an extinct Khosian language)
  
• implosives

Egressive

• Tutorial on plosives - good way to test your knowledge

Dialect Differences BBC English vowels

Compare to American English Vowels


Try transcription with the IPA
Major Classes Here's a really nice chart showing the "Natural Classes"

Why bother to learn the feature classes?
All OBSTRUENTS are [+cons], [-son].

Obstruents can be further divided into [+cont] for fricatives, and [-cont] for stops and affricates.

Fricatives are further divided into [+strident] and [-strident].

Stops and affricates are further distinguished by the feature [del. rel.] which has a positive value only for affricates.

SONORANTS (liquids and nasals) are [+cons],[+son].

In addition sonorants are [+nasal] for nasals or [-nasal] for liquids.

Lateral liquids are further distinguished as [+lat], the other liquids being [-lat].

VOWELS, GLIDES, and APPROXIMANTS are [-cons], [+son].
Suprasegmental Features
These are features length of sound, pitch, or volume
supra - above
Tone and Intonation Tonal languages differentiate by tone changes.

• Chinese has four basic tones: they are written this way
• And pronouced this way
  

Diacritics