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Dr. Rachael-Anne Knight
Senior Lecturer in Phonetics
Department of Language and Communication Science
City University London
Tel: 020 7040 8081

 

TEACHING

I lecture in phonetics and phonology at City University, London.Below are links to overheads used in my 2005 lectures.  Many of these require phonetic fonts to be installed on your computer. See this site for free download of a self-extracting file containing all the fonts you need.  However, I now use CitySpace for all my online teaching materials. For old handouts, from universities other than City, please click here.
BSc First Year Undergraduates - Term 2
Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8


Week One - Vowels
  1. Place of Articulation diagram
  2. Learning outcomes
  3. Articulatory classification
  4. Primary Cardinal Vowels
  5. Secondary Cardinal Vowels
  6. All Cardinal Vowels
  7. English Monophthongs
  8. Vowel Quadrilateral
  9. Vowels and Approximants
  10. Review Questions


Week Two - Introducing Phonology
  1. Learning objectives
  2. Phonetic description
  3. Phonological description
  4. Sequencing of sounds
  5. Contrast of sounds
  6. Phonemes and the phonemic inventory
  7. Allophones
  8. Review Questions

Week Three - Allophones pertaining to place and voicing
  1. Overview
  2. Phonemes and Allophones
  3. Coarticulation
  4. Allophones pertaining to voicing
  5. More voicing allophones
  6. Aspiration
  7. Allophones pertaining to primary POA
  8. More primary POA allophones
  9. Allophones pertaining to secondary POA

Week Four - Allophones pertaining to manner of articulation
  1. Nasal and lateral approach and release
  2. Narrow and ejective release
  3. Incomplete plosion and inaudible release
  4. Nasalisation

Week Five - Reading Week

Week Six - Additional Allophonic processes
  1. Learning Objectives
  2. Glottaling
  3. Voicing
  4. Vocalised and syllabic /l/
  5. Prefortis clipping
  6. Aspiration revision
  7. Nasalization revision
  8. Introduction to parametric diagrams

Week Seven - Assimilation and CSPs
  1. Learning Objectives
  2. Revision of parametric diagrams
  3. Reminder of complimentary distribution
  4. Reminder of free variation
  5. Connected Speech Processes
  6. Assimilation
  7. Types of assimilation
  8. More types of assimilation
  9. Free Phonemic Variation

 

 

 
Last Updated 11.01.09