Englisches Seminar                                Dr. Jürg Strässler                                Updated:  1 November, 2011

The handouts for the Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology lecture are in pdf-format, which means that you need Acrobat Reader to open them. You can download Acrobat Reader from here.

The book used in the course is Davenport / Hannahs: Introducing Phonetics and Phonology, Third Edition, which is available at Bücherladen Zentrum, Schönberggasse 2, 8006 Zürich. 

At the bottom of this page there are several links to other pages of interest, such as downloads of phonetic fonts for your PC or MAC, an  IPA chart in pdf-format, and a website where you can listen to the sounds of the IPA.

Tutorial     Myriam Horat  (horat_myriam@hotmail.com);  Thursday 14.00 - 15.45,  PET 4 (English Department).

Furthermore, there are links to transcription exercises at the bottom of this page.

 

21 September, 2011	Topics     Bibliography      Outline 1
28 September, 2011	Outline 2   Solutions Exercise 4, page 17
5 October, 2011	Outline 3    IPA Chart
12 October, 2011	Outline 4     Consonant-like Symbols     Vowel-like Symbols
19 October, 2011	Outline 5     Test questions Phonetics (1)     Test questions Phonetics (2) Text: Ladefoged pp. 275-280
26 October, 2011	Outline 6
2 November, 2011	Outline 7     Text:  Ladefoged pp. 141-147   Text:  Ladefoged pp. 272-275
9 November, 2011	Outline 8     Phonemic Symbols       How to Transcribe      Checklist
16 November, 2011	Outline 9     Solutions pp. 112/113     Solutions pp. 145/146
23 November, 2011	Outline 10     Text: Hawkins Chapter 8     Excercises: Accent Classification Test questions Phonemic Theory
30 November, 2011	Outline 11    Test questions: English Phonetics and Phonology (1)                     Test questions: English Phonetics and Phonology (2)
7 December, 2011	Outline 12
14 December, 2011	FINAL TEST     Old Test (11)     Solutions (11)     Old Test (16)     Solutions (16)
21 December, 2011	Results and discussion of final test

IPA Chart

Here you find the IPA Chart in pdf-format.

Phonetics Fonts

The best place to download phonetics fonts from is the website of the Summer Institute of Linguistics. The most convenient font is IPA Encore or Doulos Sil.

The Sounds of the IPA

On the website of the University of Victoria you can listen to most of the Sounds of the IPA.

Transcritions

Transcription 1 ; Transcription_ 2, Transcripts Buck