Mundtlig sprogproduktion
Workshop One
Agenda
• Inspector Clouseau explains why these
workshops are useful
• The course and the website
• Getting started: Using your English –
English dictionary and Davidsen Nielsen’s
Outline
• The organs of speech
• The consonants
• Assignment One
Getting Started: Check your
English – English dictionary
• does it make use of the International Phonetic Alphabet
in mapping out the English sound system?
• does it represent the sounds of British or American
English? or both?
• does it represent Received Pronunciation (RP) or
another accent?
• does it have a list of symbols used? Study the symbols
carefully, reading out the examples offered (if any)
• how does it represent stress
• how does it represent variation in the pronunciation of
vowels
Niels Davidsen-Nielsen, An Outline
of English Pronunciation
• Compare the list of symbols used (p. 9)
with the symbols used in your dictionary
The Organs of Speech (14)
• The respiratory system
• The phonation system: the larynx (the
vocal chords, the glottis)
• The articulatory system: the pharynx,
mouth, and nose.
• The active and passive articulators
The Organs of Speech
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The places of articulation, for instance:
The lips
The alveolar ridge
The velum
The Organs of Speech
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The four manners of articulation
Closure: / pɪn /
Friction: /faɪn /
Approximation: vowels /ɪ/, /aɪ/
Nasality: / naɪt /
The consonant phonemes
• The inventory (30-31)
• The system (32-33)
• Probelmatic phonemes for Danes (34): /ʧ/,
/ʤ/, /ө/, /z/, /ʒ/, /w/.
The voiced alveolar fricative (20)
• The genitive:
• Dickens’ /dɪkɪnzɪz/
• John’s /ʤɒnz/
• Pat’s /pæts/
• The plural:
• Horses /hɔ:sɪz/
• Dogs /dɒgz/
• Cats /kæts/
/ʧ/, /ʤ/, /ө/, /z/, /ʒ/, /w/
• Nationalism is a Janus-faced creed, which turns back to
an idealized past in order to gather the mythological
resources with which to leap forward into a politically
independent future. In Joyce’s own day, W. B. Yeats is a
prime example of this facing-both-ways. The Ireland of
the time was itself a mixture of the new and the old, as
the forces of modernization flourished alongside cultural
forms which were often quite traditional. The place was
both European and a colony, both advanced and
underdeveloped. Modernism often thrives in this kind of
time-warp, and is as double-visaged as nationalism.
(Terry Eagleton, The English Novel: An Introduction. Blackwell 2005, p. 292)
The Stops
• /p,b,t,d,k,g/
• /ʧ,ʤ/ (42-44)
Assignment One
• Hand in as a part of your ”Sprogproduktion
1” portfolio