International Phonetic Alphabet

7. WHAT ARE THE THREE
BODY PARTS WHEN WE
SPEAK ANY LANGUAGE?

8. What do we use for language memory and speech
coordination?
What do we use to monitor pronunciation?
What do we use to make sounds?

10. PHONEME
It is the smallest unit of speech.

11. SYLLABLE
it is the combination of one or more
phonemes.

12. WORD
It is the combination of one or more syllables.

13. DIVISION OF PHONEMES
VOWELS are always VOICED
CONSONANTS may be VOICED or
VOICELESS

14. DIPHTHONG
It is a combination of two or more vowels into one
phoneme.

15. IPA and the
SOUNDS OF
ENGLISH

16. PHONETICS is the study of sounds.
With PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTIONS ,
dictionaries tells you about the
pronunciation of words.
PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTIONS it is
necessary , because the spelling of a word
does not tell you how you should
pronounce it.

17. INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC
ALPHABET
It is an alphabetic system of phonetic
notation based primarily on the Latin
alphabet.
It is the standard representation of the
sounds of oral language.
It is used in dictionaries to indicate the
pronunciation of words.
it uses special symbol.

18. Now let us try to read and
produce the sound of the
following vowels and
consonants

19. IPA VOWELS

23. IPA
CONSONANTS

25. PLOSIVES
It has no nasal airflow.
 the air quickly builds up pressure
behind the articulators and then
releases in a burst.

27. NASALS
are created when you completely
block air flow through your mouth
and let the air pass through your
nose.

29. FRICATIVES
air has to be forced through a narrow
channel.
 partial blockage of the vocal tract

31. SIBILANTS
 sounded with a hissing
effect

33. APPROXIMANTS
are created when two articulators
come close together but not quite
close enough to create air
turbulence.

35. AFFRICATES
start as stops with air building up behind
an articulator which then releases through
a narrow channel as a fricative

37. LATERAL
created when the tongue blocks the
the middle of your mouth so that air
has to pass around the sides.