1.- Introduction.
Phonetics and phonology. Conventions.
Acoustic phonetics: pitch, quality, loudness, and length.
Auditory phonetics.
Articulatory phonetics: the speech organs. Spelling and sound. The IPA.
Segmentation. Isolated sounds and connected speech. Phonemes and allophones. Phonotactics.
Classification of English phonemes.
2.- English vowels, diphthongs and triphthongs.
Acoustic features: quality and length.
Articulatory features: openness, place of articulation and rounding.
Cardinal vowels. Diphthongs and triphthongs.
Description of each sound:
Spelling and examples. Allophones. Articulatory and acoustic description.
Contrasts and remarks to foreign (Spanish speaking) learners.
3.- English consonants and clusters.
Place of articulation. Manner of articulation.
Voicing. Fortis/lenis contrast. Description of each sound:
Spelling and examples. Allophones.
Articulatory description.
Contrasts and remarks to learners.
4.- Processes in Connected Speech.
Strong and weak forms.
Rhythm, assimilation, elision and linking.
5.- Segmental and suprasegmental components.
Word stress. The syllable.
Intonation. Functions. Types of tone units.
6.- Varieties of English.
Social and geographical variation.
RP, GA and other accents.