Tag: phonetics
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Phonemic atomism
SOCRATES: Is a proposition resolvable into any part smaller than a name?HERMOGENES: No; that is the smallest. (Cratylus, Plato) In language there are levels of units. These are sentence, clause, phrase, word and phoneme. Here Socrates narrows down the meaningful unit to the word or name. A phoneme in itself has no meaning as such.…
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International Phonetic Alphabet symbols online keyboard
Did you know you can type phonetic symbols without needing to install fonts onto your computer’s operating system or word processor? Simply go to ipa.typeit.org and enter the symbols you cannot get normally. Have fun. ;)
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Va Va Black Sheep – difficult sounds for Japanese learners of English
The ‘v’ sound is perhaps one of the hardest sounds for my Japanese learners of English to master. It doesn’t exist in the Japanese language. And it is approximated with the ‘b’ phoneme. Recent research has found that if the sound ‘va’ is matched with a video showing another sound made in the similar region…
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English Phonetic Chart
Here is an English phonetic chart I had created based on Adrian Underhill‘s Sound Foundations. I highly recommend this book as a workbook for teachers.
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Praat
Praat is “a free scientific computer software program for the analysis of speech in phonetics”.
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