Phonetics | Spice of English Grammar

https://ocw.u-tokyo.ac.jp/lecture_files/engin_01/1/notes/ja/A2-Phonetics.pdf

  • University of Tokyo Department of Mathematical Engineering〜〜(blu3mo)
    • Is this more focused on acoustic phonetics?
    • It talks about Japanese vowels
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      • “u” is not /u/, but /ω/, huh (blu3mo)
        • Maybe it’s because you don’t have to purse your lips as much
          • It reminds me of when I was told to purse my lips more for the “u” sound in Chinese Pronunciation, I guess it’s similar to that~ (blu3mo)(blu3mo)
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      • So, the “ra” sound is /r/?
      • The consonants don’t blend together, indeed~ (blu3mo)
    • It seems that assimilation is also within the scope of phonetics (blu3mo)
      • Well, it’s difficult to completely distinguish “writing” and “speech”, right?
        • They seem to interact with each other
    • Phonological comparison between Japanese and other languages

      • Sounds very interesting (blu3mo)
      • Hawaiian language
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        • “San Francisco” becomes “kapalakiko”
        • All the sounds t, d, th, s, z, zh, ts, dz, k, g are all replaced with “k”, I don’t understand the meaning from my perspective
      • Japanese
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        • Japanese also has all sounds replaced with “a”, so it’s similar to Hawaiian language, I guess (blu3mo)
    • Accent
      • I’ve heard that Japanese has pitch accent and English has stress accent (blu3mo)
      • The rules for accent changes in Japanese, they seem really complicated
        • Changes that span multiple words