Audio Book Material Semester 2 23-24
Audio Book Material Semester 2 23-24
In the second semester of this annual course we will be concentrating on using the phonemes that you studied in Semester I. We will be considering core aspects of phonetics which you need to master in order to be able to move freely between graphic and phonetic forms of language and transcribe texts with ease, demonstrating that you are able to understand the relationship between written and spoken language.
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2. Transcribing Text
Transcribing text
In the first semester emphasis was put on learning the phonemes of English and transcribing individual lexical items. The main aims of this introductory stage of your Sounds of English course were to equip you with a basic understanding of the sound system, so that you would be able to deal with more complex transcription exercises in this second semester.
Transcribing text requires you to bring together a series of inter-connected skills and your final exam will be a test of your level of preparation of these core aspects of any study of phonetics. It is clearly more challenging to transcribe from graphic form to phonetic rather than in the opposite direction, but you should aim to feel confident when moving backwards and forwards between both forms. During this semester you should be aiming to develop your understanding of the following:
1. graphic-phonetic relationship
2. word-stress
3. sentence stress
4. weak forms
5. linking