Finish

Remember: The lab for module 1 will be held in week 2. 

What you should know from Module 1

Students often ask if they need to memorise the IPA chart and all the physiological terms and symbols mentioned in this module.  The answer is no!  The main skill you need is to be able to read and interpret the IPA Chart.  For this course, you’ll always be able to refer to IPA chart in the tests (as in most real life IPA related scenarios!). 

We don’t go that deep into articulatory phonetics in this course, but you should make sure that you have an understanding of the foundational concepts:

• Basic vocal anatomy:
  • What are active versus passive articulators
  • Systems in Speech Production: the respiratory system, the phonation system, and the articulation
    system 
• Consonants:
  • Voicing: what the difference between voiced versus unvoiced sounds
  • Place: You should be able to relate place columns in the IPA chart to points of constriction in
    the voice tract.
  • Manner: You should know the general differences between stops, taps, trill, fricative, lateral fricatives, approximants in terms of how they are articulated.
  • Why are pulmonic and non-pulmonic consonants listed separately on the IPA chart?
• Vowels:
  • Height
  • Frontness
  • rounding
  • What are the cardinal vowels? How do they relate to the representation of vowels on the IPA chart?
  • What’s the difference between monophthongs and diphthongs
  • What’s the difference between oral vs nasal vowels