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This document introduces phonetics and the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). It discusses how phonetics is the study of sounds in language and how the IPA uses symbols to represent speech sounds. The IPA chart shows the 44 sounds used in British English, divided into monophthongs (single vowel sounds), diphthongs (double vowel sounds), and consonants. Learning the phonetic chart helps understand pronunciation beyond traditional spelling.

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This document introduces phonetics and the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). It discusses how phonetics is the study of sounds in language and how the IPA uses symbols to represent speech sounds. The IPA chart shows the 44 sounds used in British English, divided into monophthongs (single vowel sounds), diphthongs (double vowel sounds), and consonants. Learning the phonetic chart helps understand pronunciation beyond traditional spelling.

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Unit 1

Introduction to Phonetics
At the end of this lecture you should be able to do
the following:

A) Define Phonetics

B) Recognize the meaning of IPA and its symbols.

C)Recognize how sounds are produced and


identify the various Organs of speech
Phonetics is the study of the actual sounds that make
up the words of a language.
The word Phonetics comes from Ancient Greek
word, phone, which means "voice, or sound.
Every language has its own characteristics and there
are sounds in English that you might not use in your
Language, and sounds in your language that we might not
use in English and one of the more difficult things
about English is the spelling and pronunciation.
This introduction to phonetics will look at the
difference between the written spelling and the actual
pronunciation. We only have 26 letters in the alphabet
but modern English uses about 44 different sounds.
So when you look at word, it can be difficult to know,
from the spelling, how to pronounce it because the
same letters can be pronounced differently in
different words. Look at these examples.
 Busy

 Word

 Queue

 Laughter

 Comb

 Chaos
All of these words and many more can be
difficult to pronounce because spelling in English
is not phonetic. So in our introduction to
phonetics we look at how to get around this by
looking at the actual sounds that make up a word
and not how it is spelt. In the Phonemic Chart ,
Phonemic Chart

Phonemic chart uses symbols from the International


Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). The International Phonetic
Alphabet is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation
based primarily on the Latin alphabet. It was devised by
the International Phonetic Association in the late of 19th
century as a standardized representation of the sounds of
spoken language.
IPA symbols are useful for learning pronunciation.
The symbols on this chart represent the 44 sounds used in
British English speech.

Learners and teachers may want to print a copy of


this phonemic chart to keep close at hand for reference.
Phonetic Chart Explained
In this section we are going to be looking at the
phonetic chart. At first it looks like a meaningless
collection of symbols. But each symbol represents a
different sound.

In spoken form, most of the English language can


be broken down into 44 separate sounds. The phonetic
chart shows us how these sounds relate to each other.
There are three sections.

• Monophthongs, or Single Vowel Sounds.


• Diphthongs, or double Vowel Sounds.
• Single and pairs Consonants.
The first section is single vowel sounds. These
are also sometimes called monophthongs. When we
think about the alphabet we normally think of
there being 5 vowels A, E, I, O, U.
On the top row we have the sounds

/ ɪ/ - /ɪː/ - /ʊ/ - /uː/


On the second row we have the sounds

/e/ - /ə/ - /ɜː/ - /ɔː/


On the bottom row we have the sounds
/æ/ - /ʌ / - /ɑː/ - /ɒ/

In The second section is double vowel sounds.


These are also sometimes called diphthongs

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