LLCM30ES English Phonetics
Welcome to this course in English phonetics!
Class 1 Introduction
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General instructions • You are responsible for what you do. Your instructors are NOT your caregivers. • Respect your fellow students and instructors: you are not allowed to talk freely in class. • You must turn off your mobile phone before each class. • Attendance is mandatory (unless registered for «!contrôle terminal!»). 02/10/2007 T. Kamiyama
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1-1. Who? Instructors • CM: Takeki Kamiyama • TD: Aurélie Toffolon and Takeki Kamiyama
1. General outline of the course 5W1H of LLCM30ES English Phonetics
• Make sure you know which group you are in! (group A/B/C, subgroup a/b)
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1-2. When?
Weeks 4-9
Exams? • Probably on Week 11 (last but one, before Christmas), during TD (to be confirmed). Plus, • Mid-term exam, quiz, or something else, depending on your TD instructor (for those registered for «!contrôle continu!»).
Weeks 10-12
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1-2. When?
• CM: Tuesday 9:30 - 10:30 (weeks 1-9) • TD: depends on your group (weeks 4-12) Weeks 1-3
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Contrôle continu and contrôle terminal
Contrôle continu and contrôle terminal
• Basically, you have to enrol in «!contrôle continu!», unless you can justify the reason.
• Register before the end of the Class 3 (Oct. 16): • 1. at the secretariat
• Contrôle continu: attendance is mandatory; you will be graded on the final exam, the mid-term exam/quiz, and possibly on other assignments, participation, etc., depending on the TD instructor. • Contrôle terminal: you will be graded on the final exam only. 02/10/2007 T. Kamiyama
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1-3. Where?
English + Phonetics • A. English: what variety of English?
• TD: Traditional language lab (room 57 or 59), or multimedia room (room 63 or 69): to be confirmed.
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1-4. What?
• CM: Room 13 (Copernic)
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• B. Phonetics? • A study of speech sounds used in languages.
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1-4. What?
A. What variety of English?
1-4. What?
Various accents of English
Dialects and accents • Dialects: varieties distinguished from each other by differences of grammar and vocabulary.
• 1. Suffolk, England
• 5. Beaumont, Texas
• 2. Glasgow, Scotland
• 6. Brisbane, Australia
• 3. Kilkenny, Ireland
• 7. Nice, France
• Accents: refers to variation in pronunciation.
• 4. Fresno, California
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1-4. What?
What accent to study?
1-4. What?
What accent to study? RP
• The norm, standard and the model of (foreign) language teaching and learning.
• RP: received pronunciation (in the 19th century sense ‘accepted in the most polite circles of society’).
• "National" standard
Hughes, Trudgill and Watt 1979/2005, p.2-3
• Some other related terms: BBC English, SSB (Standard Southern British), Estuary English.
• !International standard
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1-4. What?
What accent to study? RP
1-4. What?
What accent to study? RP
• RP: spoken by 3-5 % population of England -> minority accent. • However, • High prestige: has long been perceived to be the ‘best’, clearest accent. • BBC radio and television: the most widely understood of all accents, the best chance of being understood. • The most thoroughly described of British accents.
• Presence of the UK in the European Union. (compared with GA, to be covered from the next slide on)
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1-4. What?
What accent to study? GA
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1-4. What? • GA: General American • Relative uniformity of accents across the continent. Wells 1982, fig. 16
• GA: General American • Considered as ‘standard’, as opposed to Eastern and Southern accents. • Covers a wide area across the continent. • Relative uniformity of accents across the continent, compared to the British Isles (-> history of the diffusion of English).
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1-4. What?
1-4. What?
What accent to study?
B. Phonetics?
• In this course in English phonetics, we are going to study mostly RP, but some GA too.
• Phonetics: a study of speech sounds used in languages. • -> not about any kinds of sound
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Phonetics?
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1-4. What?
Types of sound not treated in phonetics: • Sound produced as natural phenomena (wind, rain, thunder, volcanoes, etc.) • Sound produced by animals (language is unique to the human beings). • Sound produced by the human beings unintentionally, as a physiological phenomenon (sneeze, hiccups, etc.) • Sound produced by human intentionally, using an instrument (instrumental music, for instance) • Sound produced by human intentionally with their body, but not as part of language (clap, whistle except in a ’whistled language’) 02/10/2007 T. Kamiyama
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1-4. What?
Phonetics? • Some sounds are used as part of the language in one language community, but not in another. • E.g. Clicks in Khoisan languages, ingressive voiceless bilabial fricative in Swedish
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