1. PRESENTED BY: AMY E. LINGENFELTER Tackling English Pronunciation

3. Overview of Course  Day/Step 1: Overview, warm up, voiced vs. voiceless consonants, phonetic symbols  Day/Step 2: Consonants  Day/Step 3: Consonant Clusters  Day/Step 4: Vowels  Day/Step 5: Vowel Clusters  Day/Step 6: Stress and Rhythm  Day/Step 7: Sounds in Connected Speech  Day/Step 8: Intonation  Day/Step 9: Sounds and Grammar  Day/Step 10: Pronouncing Written Words  Day/Step 11: Informal Speech and Idioms  Day/Step 12: Wrap up/Practice Test/Review

4. Today’s Class  Find a partner!  Review: HW- writing words with phonetic symbols  “Pronunciation Plus:” Part 2- Consonants.  Unit 10, page 23 (t and d)  Unit 11, page 25 (s, z, f, v, and th)  Unit 12, page 27 (th, f, v, p, b)  Unit 13, page 30 (sh, ch, french j, j)  Watch MRI video of speech production  Watch video or /r/ production

5. Let’s Warm up with Tongue Twisters!  Sally sells seashells by the seashore.  The glum groom grew glummer.  Sneak thieves seized the skis.  Rubber baby buggy bumper.  The bear at the beach bit my bike.  I speak to my special species of spiders.  I run rarely around the railroad thinking many thoughts about the rain.  Question: How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?  Answer: As much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

6. Please Write the Following Words Using Phonetic Symbols:  Hat- /hæt/  Keep- /ki ː p/  Loan- /l ə ʊ n/  Florist- /fl ɒ r ɪ st/ or /fl ɔː r ɪ st/  Ocean- / ə ʊʃ ə n/  Congregation- /k ɒ ŋ ɡ r ɪɡ e ɪʃ ə n/  America- / ə m ɛ r ɪ k ə /  Stupendous- /stu ː p ɛ nd ə s/  Marriage- /mær ɪ d ʒ /  Stationary- /ste ɪʃ ə n ə r ɪ :/  Helpless- /h ɛ lpl ɪ s/  Categorical- /kæt ɪɡ ɔː r ɪ k ə l/  Methodology- /m ɛ θ ə d ɒ l ə d ʒɪ :/  Figurative- /f ɪɡ ə r ə t ɪ v/  Telemarketer- /t ɛ l ɪˌ m ɑː k ɪ d ə r/  Telemarketing- /t ɛ l ɪˌ m ɑː k ɪ d ɪ ŋ/  Raucous- /r ɔː k ə s/ and /r ɒ k ə s/  Chauffeur- / ʃ ə ʊ f ə ; ʃ ə ʊ f ɜː /

7. Watch These Videos:  MRI (silent) of person producing speech sounds:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTOhDqhCKQs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTOhDqhCKQs  Fast-talking MRI (silent) of person producing speech sounds:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LGkbvkCS3I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LGkbvkCS3I

8. General Rules/Tips:  If the “t” is in the middle of the word, especially after a vowel and before an unstressed vowel in American English, it’s pronounced like a “d” or a FLAP:  Water  Matter  Editing  Categorical  Both the “t” and “d” in English use more force when pressing your tongue against your teeth than in Spanish.

9. General Rules/Tips:  For the /θ/ and / ð /, to avoid it sounding like a “d,” bring your tongue as far forward as possible.  For / ʃ / and / ʒ /, the tongue is not touching the roof of the mouth but almost.  For /t ʃ / and /d ʒ /, the tongue is directly touching it.  ”W” and ”y” are produced in very different parts of the mouth.  ”L” and ”r” are also produced in very different parts.

10. Watch These Videos:  Pronouncing “R” sound (girl):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq_yIbrD01c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq_yIbrD01c  Pronouncing “R” sound (man):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wEIsyqu_Jo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wEIsyqu_Jo

11. Voiced vs. Voiceless Consonants

12. Introduction to Phonetic Symbols