VC2653VB2683 English Phonetics

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VC2653/VB2683English Phonetics Phonology

• Lecture 1 Introduction

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Course Content

• http//pkukmweb.ukm.my/iha/VC2653.htm

Tutorials
Series of practical phonetics session General
discussion as dictated by the tutors and assigned
readings
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Some preliminaries

• set of inventory of sounds phonemes identify
  and describe (vowels / consonants semi vowels
  (glides)
• How many? How do we determine whether a
  particular sound is part of the inventory of a
  language?
• Symbols International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
  transcription /fi?/ Segmental vs supra-segmental
• Stress intonation

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Approaches to Phonetics

• Auditory phonetics
• Articulatory phonetics production
• Perceptory phonetics recognition / processing
• Acoustic phonetics physical properties
• Experimental phonetics

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Phonology

• Deals with the phonemes as a system with rules
  and parameters governing the realisations of the
  phonemes
• phonological constraints
• Clusters
• Syllabic structure
• Phonological processes assimilation
  nasalisation
• Morpho-phonemic analysis