Teacher’s book unit one

Task I. Listen to the recorded phonetic terms you will need in the course of practical phonetics. Write them down. Practise their pronunciation and learn their meanings.

Africate

Allophone

Alveolar

Alveolar ridge

Articulation

Articulatory phonetics

Aspiration

Backlingual

Bilabial

Broad

Consonant

Consonant cluster

Constrictive

Dental

Devoiced

Diphthong

Diphthongoid

Disyllabic

Final position

Flat rounding

Forelingual

Fortis

Fricative

Fricative plosion (incomplete plosion)

Glide

Head

Initial position

Interdental

Intonation

Intonation group

Jaws (upper and lower)

Kinetic tone

Labialization

Labiodental

Lateral

Lateral plosion

Laterally-exploded allophone

Larynx

Lax

Lenis

Letter

Linking

Lip rounding

Lips (upper and lower)

Long vowels

Loss of plosion

Lungs

Manner of noise production

Monosyllabic

Monophthong

Mouth

Mouth cavity

Narrow

Nasal

Nasalization

Nasal cavity

Nasally-exploded allophone

Nasal plosion

Neutral

Nose

Noise consonants

Nuclear tone (falling, rising, falling-rising, rising-falling, level)

Nucleus

Occlusive

Oral

Organs of speech

Palatalization

Palatalized

Palate (hard and soft)

Palato-alveolar

Partial devoicing

Pattern

Pharyngeal articulation

Pharynx

Phoneme

Phoneme sequences

Phonemic symbol

Phonemic system

Phonetic alphabet

Phonetics

Pitch (high, mid, low)

Pitch level

Place of articulation

Plosion

Plosive

Positional allophone

Post-alveolar

Pre-head

Prenuclear

Realisation

Root of the tongue

RP (Received Pronunciation)

Scale (Descending Stepping)

Schwa

Segmental level

Semivowel

Short vowels

Simple tones

Sonorant

Speech sound

Spread-lip position

Standard pronunciation

Static

Stress

Strong form

Suprasegmental level

Syllabic consonants (syllable-formative consonants)

Syllable (open and closed)

Target language

Tail (descending, ascending, level)

Teeth (upper and lower)

Teeth ridge

Tense

Terminal tone

Tone

Tonic syllable

Tongue (tip, blade, front, back and root)

Tongue height

Tongue tip

Transcription (international, broad (phonemic), narrow (allophonic))

Unrounded (or non-labialized)

Uvula

Uvular articulation

Velar

(The) Vocal cords

Vocal cord action

Vocal effects

Vocal tract

Voice quality (timbre)

Voiced

Voiceless

Vowel (front, central (mid) and back; close, half open (intermediate), open)

Weak forms

Task 2. Listen to the following phonetic terms; write them in the right columns:

Affricate

Allophone

Alveolar

Alveolar ridge

Backlingual

Bilabial

Broad

Consonant

Constrictive

Dental

Devoiced

Diphthong

Diphthongoid

Flat rounding

Forelingual

Fortis

Fricative

Glide