These videos give a concise introduction to articulatory phonetics and International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). The first three videos comes from the UBC Visible Speech Channel, where you can also find a lot more demonstrations of how specific vocal tract articulations relate to speech sounds. You can also find a lot of further information on their eNunciate! project website. There’s also more audio/video resources in the readings tab.
The last two videos come from the Virtual Linguistics Campus youtube channel. That channel also has many useful videos on phonetics and linguistics more generally. We’ll watch some more of these in module 2.
Total video to watch in this section: 20 minutes
An introduction to how people make speech sounds, i.e. articulatory phonetics, starting with consonants. This video is from the University of British Columbia eNunciate project.
Now we look at how speakers produce vowel sounds (video from UBC eNunciate).
Having learned a bit about articulation of consonants and vowels, we see how speech sounds are abstracted in the International Phonetic Alphabet (video from the University of British Columbia eNunciate project).
We don't usually make speech sounds in isolation. Speech is full of co-articulation: speech sounds can be influenced by preceding and following sounds. Video from the Virtual Linguistics Campus.
We also find secondary articulation in speech such as labialisation, palatalisation, velarisation, pharangealisation, and nasalisation.