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Comprehensible Pronunciation
Professor George E.K.Whitehead
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What do you think? Non-native teachers are poor models of pronunciation. Korean English speakers should try to reduce their accent as much as possible in order to be comprehensible. There is only one correct way to pronounce things. It is beneficial to expose learners to as many different pronunciation varieties as possible. It is important to be able to differentiate between English sounds when pronouncing things.
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What does English sound like?
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Activity Write down the score you would give these speakers of English from 1-10. 1 = very very bad 10 = perfect!
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It is important to be able to differentiate between sounds in order to differentiate between words.
fan dead sheet today dad shit to die pan
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What would you do if this was your student?
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/FƏNETIKS/ English Vowels
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The International Phonetic Alphabet
What is IPA? Why is it useful?
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Beard is not the same as heard
Our Strange Lingo Beard is not the same as heard Cord is also different from word. Cow is cow but low is low but shoe is never rhymed with toe. Think of hose, dose,and lose And think of goose and yet with choose Think of comb, tomb and bomb, Doll and roll or home and some. Think of blood, food and good. Mould is not pronounced like could. To sum up all, it seems to me Sound and letters don't agree. Adapted from:Lord Cromer, published in the Spectator of August 9th, 1902
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English is NOT phonetic
Letters and sounds do not match leading to the following problems…
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Different letters represent the same sound
rough too to fit two shoe threw physics through clue
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The same letters represent different sounds…
read glove through move trough read
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Some letters have no sound at all
receipt knit salmon would scent
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IPA allows you to write language as it sounds
pronunciation /prənʌnsieʃən/ I had to quit drinking coffee. It keeps me awake during presentations. /aj hæd tu kwɪt drɪŋkɪŋ kafi. ɪt kips mi əwek durɪŋ prɛzənteʃənz./
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IPA and Vowels English has 5 vowels, but many more vowel sounds!
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ɚ English Vowel Chart u i ɪ ʊ o e ə ʌ ɛ æ ɑ KEY POINTS Tongue height
Tongue position Tenseness (tense / lax) Rounding
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Diphthongs= More than one vowel sound
cow boy buy bear Vowels are produced in a smaller region of the vocal tract—the palatal and velar regions so place of articulation descriptions are also inappropriate Vowels are usually sonorant but voiceless vowels are found in some languages—phonological status of the vowels are unclear. There are also vowels with other glottal states—listen on Ladefoged
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Identify the Vowel Sounds
cup run camp crazy ring sheet can last Batman wolf mom dad bed curtain women bad look said color fox pin fan fun lotion pocket meet shook red practice saw ɪ i e ɛ æ ə ʌ u ʊ o ɑ If you are finish early, write down some of the words that you are uncertain how to pronounce.
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/FƏNETIKS/ English Consonants
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Voicing Voiced = vibration of vocal cords Voiceless= just air
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Location
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