PHONETICS

BRANCH OF LINGUISTIC WHICH STUDIES THE CHARACTERISTIC OF SPEECH

SOUND
Most speech sounds are produced by pushing
air through the vocal cords.

Lips = opening for food intake and in the articulation of

sound and speech.

Tongue =muscular organ in the mouth

Larynx = ‘voice box’

Pharynx = tubular part of the throat above the larynx

Oral cavity = mouth

Nasal cavity = nose and the passages connecting it to the throat and sinuses
 BRANCHES OF PHONETICS
ARTICULATORY - studies articulation and ways that humans
produce speech.

AUDITORY - concerned with the hearing of speech sounds

and with speech perception.

ACOUSTIC - study of the physical properties of sounds.

 International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)

- International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), an alphabet developed in

the 19th century to accurately represent the pronunciation of
languages. One aim of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
was to provide a unique symbol for each distinctive sound in a
language—that is, every sound, or phoneme, that serves to
distinguish one word from another.
PLACES OF ARTICULATION

- It is the location at which two speech organs

approach or come together in producing a
speech sound, as in the contact of the tongue
and the teeth to form a dental sound. Also called
point of articulation .
PLACES OF ARTICULATION
 MAJOR PLACES OF
ARTICULATION

Bilabials: p , b , m
– Produced by bringing both lips together
Labiodentals: f , v
– Produced by touching the bottom lip to the upper
teeth
Interdentals: n
– Produced by putting the top of the tongue
between the teeth
Alveolar
- Produced with the tongue tip on or near the
tooth ridge: /t, d, s, z, n, l/ (as in ‘to, do,
zoo, new, and light’).

Velar
- Produced with the tongue body on or near
the soft palate: /g, k, ŋ/ (as in ‘go, kite, and
bang’).
 MANNER OF ARTICULATION
- The manner of articulation is the way the airstream is affected as it flows from
the lungs and out of the mouth and nose.

- Voiceless sounds are those produced with the

vocal cords apart so the air flows freely through
the glottis.

- Voiced sounds are those produced when the

vocal cords are together and vibrate as air
passes through
 TONE AND INTONATION
Tone refers to the emotion and attitude one puts behind
their words. In contrast, intonation refers to the
fluctuation of one's voice as they speak. ... Intonation is
how you use your voice to direct your sentence's flow to
convey a message.

English has two basic intonation patterns

: rising and falling. When they gotogether, they can make
a falling-rising tone.
However, intonation may affect the meaning of a
whole sentence:

• John is here said with falling intonation is a

statement
• John is here said with rising intonation is a
question
 STRESS
- stress is the degree of emphasis
given a sound or syllable in speech,
also called lexical stress or word
stress. Unlike some other
languages, English has variable (or
flexible) stress.
THANK
YOU
QUIZ
 I. IDENTIFICATION
1. It is the location at which two speech organs approach or come together in producing a
speech sound?

2. It is the way which the airstream is affected as it flows from the lungs and out of the
mouth and nose ?

3. It is the branch of linguistic which studies the characteristic of speech sound.

4. A branch of phonetics which studies articulation and ways that humans produce speech.

5. It is Produced by touching the bottom lip to the upper teeth.

 A. IDENTIFY THE PLACE OF
ARTICULATION
6. 7. 7. 8.

9. 10.
 B. IDENTIFY THE PLACE OF ARTICULATION OF THE GIVEN
CONSONANT

11. B

12. V

13. T

14. H

15. M
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HOW DOES PHONETICS HELP

STUDENTS IN THEIR NEW
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CLASSES?
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Can a phoneme be a
morpheme ?