LANGUAGE BLOCKS

LANGUAGE BLOCKS

1. PHONETICS

   • Articulatory
   • Auditory
   • Acoustics

2. THE VOCAL TRACT

   • Larynx
   • Glottis
   • Sounds
     • Nasal
       • English has consonants nasal and oral
     • Oral
       • English only has vowels oral

3. THE ALPHABET PHONETIC INTERNATIONAL (IPA)

   • Provides
     • A standard of notation for representation everyone's phonetics languages

4. THE CONSONANTS OF ENGLISH

   • Phoneme
   • Allophone
   • Phono
   • English has 24 consonants
   • Place of Articulaction
     • Bilabial: [p] [m] and [b]
     • Dental: [θ] and [ð]
     • Dental-alveolar: [t] [n] [s] [z] [l] [ɹ] and [d]
     • Velar: [k] [ŋ] and [g]
     • Labio-dental: [f] and [v]
     • Palatal: [j]
     • Alveolar - palatal: [ʃ] [ʒ] [tʃ] and [d3]
     • Glottal: [h]
     • Labial-velar: [w]
   • Maner or articulation
     • Plosives
     • Fricatives
     • Africatives
     • Nasals
     • Aproximants
     • Glotal stop
     • Uvular stop

5. DESCRIBING VOWELS

   • In terms of its back
     • Front / back
   • The height of the tongue
     • Closed, medium closed, medium open, open.
   • The outline of the lips
     • Not rounded / rounded

6. SUPRASEGMENTALS

   • Stress
   • Prominence
   • Intonation and tone