Phonetics I - Schedule

ENS101G Phonetics I - Course Schedule, Autumn 2008
Pétur Knútsson

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Week	Reading	Workbook and CD tracks	webpages		slides	ASSIGNMENTS Guidelines assignments log
1 3 Sep	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		Introduction (1) Introduction (2) Slideshow on RP, GA, International English	Exercise 0 slide on exercise 0
Preview video for first week Class video, first week, session 1. Class video, first week, session 2.
2 10 Sep	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		Slide on Vowels and consonants Slide on lax vowels	Exercise 1 slide on exercise 1
Preview video for second week Class video, seond week, session 1. Class video, second week, session 2. Please let me know if you have trouble viewing these videos. If you do, here are low-reolution videos for easier dowloading: session 1 session 2 and here is the unedited screen capture..
3 17 Sep	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		Slide on tense vowels Vowels summary Diphthongs British and American vowels	Excercise 2 TONS of ROCK STRUT and LOT words Exercise 3 FANCY DANCES BATH words quick video on these exercises
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4 24 Sep	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		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.
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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		stress and weak vowels Introductory slide on consonants: plosives	Exercise 5
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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		fortis and lenis fricatives sibilants	Assignment 1 Exercise 6
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7 15 Oct	Reading week - no class two short videos: VOT (summary) from last year -s endings - RULES from last year
8 22 Oct	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		nasals the lateral	Assignment 2 Answers to Assignment 2 Exercise 7
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9 29 Oct	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		-s and-ed approximants r	Exercise 8
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10 5 Nov	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		v and w Unvoicing of r,l,j,w after fortis plosives glides segmental, suprasegmental, prosodic text	Assignment 3
Statement about complaints in Composition. Unedited screen capture for this week					Tip: are you having difficulty with videos? Try right-clicking and saying "Save Target As ..." and then save the video on your desktop. It might take some time, but once you've got it there you can view it at your own leisure.
11 12 Nov	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		word stress sentence stresses	extra transcription exercises
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12 19 Nov	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		placement of sentence stress weak forms	Assignment 4 deadline: Wednesday 3 December
remarks on plagiarism, Google, and grandmothers (video of beginning of lecture) Unedited screen capture for this week
13 26 Nov	Revision and consolidation			Exam 2006 Answers Exam 2007 Answers unedited screen this week final slide: examination
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