chapter 2 Speech Sounds语言学概要1.pptVIP

Can you speak correctly? Sit and sip Sue’s tea.  Her heart got hurt. Bill fired, Jill hired.  Jeer at the year liar. Stop hopping to top.  Quash quakes quickly! Deer fear mere tears. Bob Hope taps the cup.Kent sent a cent to Ant. Fox falls in love in fall. Goat road a boat to vote. Don, t worry, but hurry, Jerry. Hannah’ s llama has a hammer. She’s a big sheep on Peter’s ship. The batter’s bitter butter’s better. The suite suits the sweet Sweeneys. Fred Ford can’t afford four Fords. Thin metal tins think tinkers kings. The busy bees buzz at the big bear. Puffins in the coffin munch muffins. 棺木里的海鹦大嚼松饼。 Introduction The?speech and writing?are two media or substance used by natural language as vehicles for communication Modern linguistics regards the spoken form of language as primary, but not the written form. Linguists are not interested in all sounds; they are concerned with only those sounds that are produced by the human speech organs. 1. Phonetics 1.1 Speech production and perception 1.2 Speech organs (vocal organs) 1.3 Phonetic transcription 1.4 English speech sounds 1. Phonetics Phonetics studies how speech sounds are produced, transmitted, and perceived. It’s concerned with all the sounds that occur in the world’s languages. 1.1 Speech production and perception Speech Speech Production Perception (speaker A) (speaker B) 1.2 Speech organs (vocal organs) The parts of the human body are involved in the production of speech. Lungs Trachea(windpipe) Larynx(where the vocal folds are) Mouth Nose The three cavities of the vocal tract: the pharynx (pharyngeal cavity), the mouth (oral cavity), the nose (nasal cavity). The air- stream