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- Généralités
- Section 1
Section 1
All the first semester Phonetics lessons (first year)
Practice saying the following questions and giving the answers.
1. Is it a big cat?
2. Is it a big cut?
3. What's a buck?
4. What's a book?
5. Was it cut?
6. Was it caught?
7. What's a skull?
8. What's a school?
9. Do you need many?
10. Do you need money?
11. What's a goal?
12. What's a gull?1. Why did you sleep?
2. Why did you slip?
3. What's a sheep for?
4. What's a ship for?
5. When will you leave?
6. Where will you live?1. No, it's a dog.
2. No, it's not too deep.
3. It's one dollar.
4. The thing you read.
5. No, it was broken.
6. No, it's still free.
7. It's the protection for your brain.
8. It's a place for learning.
9. No, I only need a few.
10. Yes, I need ten dollars.
11. It's an aim or purpose.
12. It's a seabird.1. I was tired.
2. The floor was wet.
3. It's to produce wool.
4. To carry things on the water.
5. I leave in two weeks
6. In Britain.The first semester Phonetics lessons (First Year)
- Section 2
Section 2
Exercise 3: Rewrite the following transcribed sentences into the ordinary graphic form.
/ w
ts jɔ: neɪm/?/haʊ menɪ egz ɑ: ðeər ɪn ðə frɪdʒ/?
/n
t menɪ pi:pl nəʊ əbaʊt dʒɔ:dʒz pɑ:st// ɪz ʃi: enɪ betə θɪs mɔ:nɪŋ /?
/ aɪ æm mɔ: ðæn pli:zd wɪð maɪ peɪ raɪz ætkʃʊlɪ/
/ ɪn ðɪ end ðeɪ mænɪdʒəd tʊ rɪskju: ðə kæt
n ðə ru:f /Exercise 4: Transcribe phonetically the following.
- Administrationa, additional, almost, blame, below, bright, best, boom, abroad
- Giant, flower, lawer, location, tower, ampower
Vowel glides
- Section 3
Section 3
Exercise 1
Read the following poem from The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien. Focus on the initial sounds only. How many fricatives do you find?
Roads go ever on and onRoads go ever ever on,
Over rock and under tree,
By caves where never sun has shone,
By streams that never find the sea;
Over snow by winter sown.How many nasals do you find in this poem?
Roads go ever ever on
Under cloud and under star,
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar.
Eyes that fire and sword have seen
And horror in the halls of stone
Look at last on meadows green
And trees and hills they long have known. - Section 4
Section 4
All the English sounds (phonetic symbols)
- Section 5
Section 5
Exercise 2: Complete the following table.
Plosive
…
Affricate
…
Lateral
…
…
/ … , … /
/m/
Labio-dental
/ … , … /
…
/ … , … /
…
/ t , … /
/ … , … /
…
/ … , … /
/ … , … /
…
/j/
…
/ … , … /
/ … /
Glottal
Exercise 3: Identify the sound produced in each picture.
Exercise 4: a. Transcribe phonetically the following words.
Death , purchase , practise , exchange , glottal , interdental , utterance , functionalism , relatively , knowledge , circumstantial , earth , reform , afford , thus , vehicle , sinking , produce , focus , situatedness , aspiration , primary , excellent.
- Section 6
- Section 7
- Section 8
- Section 9
- Section 10
- Section 11
Section 11
Exercises on Weak Forms 2
Transcribe the following sentences using phonetic symbols:
1. Give it to me!
2. It takes three hours to get from here to London.
3. Could you give me a light?
4. What’s that knife for?
5. The book that she bought was more expensive than mine.
6. They can walk to school tomorrow, they’re old enough.
7. He’s as good as his brother at playing cards; you should watch him some day.
8. These carrots are for my Granny. She’s really fond of boiled vegetables.
9. They were there in the corner, didn’t you see them?
1. /gɪv ɪt tə ˈmiː/
2. /ɪt teɪks ˈθriː ˈaʊəz tə get frəm ˈhɪə tə ˈlʌndən/
3. /kəd jə ˈgɪv mi ə ˈlaɪt/
4. /wɒts ðæt ˈnaɪf fɔː/
5. /ðə bʊk ðət ˈʃiː bɔːt wəz mɔːr ɪkˈspensɪv ðən ˈmaɪn/
6. /ðeɪ kən ˈwɔːk tə ˈskuːl təˈmɒrəʊ ðeɪər ˈəʊld ɪˈnʌf/
7. /hiːz əz ˈgʊd əz ɪz ˈbrʌðər ət ˈpleɪjɪŋ ˈkɑːdz ju ʃəd ˈwɒʧ ɪm ˈsəm deɪ/
8. /ðiːz ˈkærəts ə fə maɪ ˈgrænɪ ʃiːz ˈrɪəli fɒnd əv ˈbɔɪld ˈveʤɪtəblz/
9. /ðeɪ wə ˈðeər ɪn ðə ˈkɔːnə ˈdɪdnt ju siː ðəm/
- Exercises