Book Description

Comprehensive Articulatory Phonetics teaches how to recognize, record, and reproduce the sounds of any language. Note: The audio files can be downloaded from this link: bit.ly/1lCb0Ly Phonetics is the study of sounds. Specifically, it is the study of human speech sounds. A person who only speaks one language may not realize that there are hundreds of different consonants and vowels spoken by humans in different parts of the world. This book will introduce the reader to almost every sound spoken by man. Since the English alphabet is inadequate to represent every speech sound known to man, the reader will be taught the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). This is a special alphabet containing numerous symbols that represent sounds for all languages. Charts are included in the back of this book that list many of the symbols used in the IPA. Some IPA symbols will look quite familiar, but others are from foreign languages or were invented specially for the IPA. Learning these symbols and their corresponding sounds is the foundation to accurately learning the sound system of a language. The reader should also be aware of the fact that not all linguists follow the IPA conventions. Though this book generally follows the standard IPA, alternative symbols and notations will be explained throughout the text. This book is intended for speakers of American English because many of the sounds are compared to the English language. Speakers of other dialects or languages may need to adjust their pronunciation accordingly. Table of Contents: Lesson 1: Introduction to Sounds Lesson 2: Fricatives and Voicing Lesson 3: Pitch Variations Lesson 4: Stops and Voice Onset Time Lesson 5: Facial Diagrams Lesson 6: Progressive Pitch Control Lesson 7: Aspiration and Glottal Stops Lesson 8: Advanced Intonation Lesson 9: Affricates Lesson 10: Introduction to Vowels Lesson 11: Characteristics of Syllables Lesson 12: Vowel Glides Lesson 13: Fronting, Retroflexion, and Sibilants Lesson 14: Back Vowels Lesson 15: Nasals Lesson 16: Front Vowels Lesson 17: Laterals Lesson 18: Open Vowels and Length Lesson 19: Flaps and Trills Lesson 20: Central Vowels and Approximants Lesson 21: Alveopalatal Stops Lesson 22: Vowel and Glide Clusters Lesson 23: Palatal and Uvular Consonants Lesson 24: Nasalized Vowels Lesson 25: Double Articulations and Prenasalization Lesson 26: Front Rounded and Back Unrounded Vowels Lesson 27: Transition and Release Lesson 28: States of the Glottis Lesson 29: Implosives Lesson 30: Breathy Consonants and Consonant Clusters Lesson 31: Ejectives Lesson 32: Tongue Root Placement Lesson 33: Secondary Articulations Lesson 34: Fortis and Lenis Articulation Lesson 35: Clicks Lesson 36: Speech Styles Appendix