IPA for Language Learning - allophones, utterances & prosody (4 of 4)

Learn to use the International Phonetic Alphabet in a way that helps you accurately pronounce other languages. In this fourth & final lesson I introduce concepts that make sense of longer streams of speech (utterances). Phonemes are conceptual speech sounds, like the sound /n/. Allophones are different ways a single phoneme shows up in actual speech. The phoneme /n/ has the allophone [n] in 'lane' [lejn] but the allophone [ŋ] in 'language' [lejŋgwɪdʒ]. Accentuation impacts vowels in a syllable. Stress accent changes the volume level. For instance, the second syllable of 'hotel' is louder than the first. Pitch accent changes the tone, as in music. For example, the second syllable of the Ancient Greek word αὐτός (au-tós) has a high pitch, while the first syllable has a lower pitch. Prosody refers to features that apply to higher levels of language. For example, many English speakers raise intonation at the end of a question, but lower the intonation at the end of a statement. Visit the IPA lesson page for much more: www.nativlang.com/linguistics/ipa-pronunciation-le… These lessons are available as a polished workbook with more info & exercises: www.amazon.com/gp/product/1453837086/ref=as_li_ss_… www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/the-ipa-for-la… Music: Kevin MacLeod

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