2018-10-03 Pronunciation: IPA introduction

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Handout: IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) activity
- note: I have written /j/ for the sound in yes, but some English pronunciation books use /y/ for this sound.
- In addition, /r/ is technically the trilled ‘r’ of Spanish, but we often use it for the regular English ‘r’ when transcribing pronunciation.
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http://www.ipachart.com/ - You can click on each symbol to hear its pronunciation.
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Part A - On the other side of your handout, with your partner, write the English words whose pronunciation is transcribed.
A colon ‘:’ after a vowel means it’s pronounced long.
1 read / reed
2 rid
	(“ride” = /raɪd/)
3 vital
4 tough
	(“tuff” is a very good guess for the spelling, if you don’t know this word)
5 comfortable
6 laboratory
	(In British English, the pronunciation is /ləˈboʊrəˌtri/.)
7 could
8 cud
9 house
10 ought
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English is difficult. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.
through = /θruː/
tough = /tʌf/
thorough = /ˈθʊroʊ/
thought = /θɔːt/
though = /ðoʊ/

(The word “trough”, pronounced /trɔf/, also exists, but doesn’t make sense in this sentence.
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Phonetic Sayings - With your new partner, try to write these English expressions or sayings based on the pronunciation.
Number of words:
6
3
6
11
8
10
Hint: If you correctly say the pronunciations, Siri or Google should be able to tell you the correct words to use.
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Homework: Try your best to write the rest of these sayings.
Bonus: Do you understand what they mean?