Notes (Gibbon)

Sound Segments

• Identity of Speech Sounds

Spelling and Speech

• The Phonetic Alphabet

Articulatory Phonetics

• Airstream Mechanisms
• Voiced and Voiceless Sounds
• Nasal and Oral Sounds
• Place of Articulation
• Manner of Articulation
• Vowels
• Prosodic Suprasegmental Features
• Diacritics

Phonetic Symbols for American English Consonants

Terminology

accented:

acoustic phonetics:

affricates:

airstream mechanisms:

alveopalatal:

alveolar:

articulators:

articulatory phonetics:

aspirated:

auditory phonetics:

bilabial:

consonants:

continuants:

contour tones:

coronal:

cover symbols:

diacritics:

diphthongs:

downdrift:

flap:

fricatives:

fundamental frequency:

glides:

glottal stop:

glottis:

hard palate:

high vowels:

interdental:

International Phonetics Association (IPA):

intonation:

labiodental:

lateral:

lax vowels:

length:

level tones:

liquides:

long vowels:

low vowels:

manner of articulation:

mid vowels:

monophthongs:

nasal:

nasalized:

nucleus:

obstruent:

oral:

orthography:

palatal:

phonetic alphabet:

phonetic features:

(phonetic) transcription:

phonetics:

pitch:

place of articulation:

plosives:

prosodic features:

pulmonic egressive airstream:

relative pitch:

retroflex:

rounded:

schwa:

segment:

semivowels:

short vowel:

soft palate:

sonorants:

sound spectrogram:

stops:

stress:

supraglottal:

suprasegmental features:

syllabic sounds:

syllable:

tap:

tense vowels:

tone languages:

trill:

unaspirated:

uvula:

velar:

velum:

voiced:

voiceless:

vowel chart:

vowels:

Phonetics Online Links

A good source for material on phonetics are the local web sites. Thus you may check material that has been provided for previous courses.

An extensive collection of web sites related to phonetics is provided by Jong-Ha at the University of Southern California.

There is also an online version of the Phonetic Alphabet.

If you are interested in speech technology and happen to sit at a computer with audio equipment you can listen to a demo of the University of Edinburgh's speech synthesiser ``Festival''.