1. First and foremost, this video is meant to be viewed along with v3a - Vowels (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3ylJAmpWXg). It is not intended as a stand-alone piece. 2. Secondly, everyone should check out Peter Ladefoged's website companion for both "A Course In Phonetics" (1994) and "Vowels & Consonants" (2001). It's an interactive tool for learning the sounds of the IPA. http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/vowels/contents.html 3. The Letter People are the reason I'm a linguist; image is probably copyright Abrams Learning Trends: http://www.abramslearningtrends.com/ 4. International Phonetic Association's explanation of the International Phonetic Alphabet: http://www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk/ipa/ipachart.html 5. Saggital images of articulators are of unknown provenance. Anybody know who produced them originally? 6. The phones of English... The inclusion of phones like upside-down w, the alveolar flap, schwar (r-colored schwa), high-lax terminating diphthongs, and even /h/, engma, and yogh can be debateable in English. And there are a couple of different debates at hand, but they all revolve around the difference between the *phones*, *allophones*, and the *phonemes* of a language. 7. Batman let the Joker (Jack Napier) fall into a vat of chemicals (Detective Comics #168). 8. Describing /h/ as a voiceless, placeless sound is only applicable for English and, even then, only as a broad generalization. Many languages have a true glottal /h/. English has a true glottal /h/ when the h is emphasized in a word, like in "It's so hhhot in Texas!" 9. Sorry for the video jump on AFFRICATES. Don't know what that was. 10. On the use of terms like Rhotic, Liquid, Glide instead of Trill, Tap/Flap, Approximant, Lateral... Rhotic, Liquid, and Glide are terms not used on the IPA chart and are really more descriptive of the phonological than phonetic properties of English. I included them here, however, because they are also more intuitively basic for a language like English than the others. 11. Yes, I screwed up the French "r" sound. But, the sound I produced (/ʀ/) and the sound I described (/ʁ/) are both allophones of the French "r". So there. 12. My aside on glides being phonetically vowels and phonologically consonants... nailed it. Eventually I'll make that video. It will be awesome. And I'll link it here. Consider this a placeholder. 13. The IPA Chart says: "Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a modally voiced consonant...". But there are actually more cells with just one symbol — not part of a pair — than there are pairs of symbols. These lone symbols all represent modally voiced consonants AS WELL. Therefore, the IPA should really read: "Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the left represents a voiceless consonant." That is, the default on the IPA chart is modal voicing. 14. Along with *voicing*, you should also know about *aspiration*. Aspiration is a puff of air that accompanies the production of a sound. Voiceless stops are aspirated at the beginning of a syllable in English. 15. Interstitial title background is Josef Albers and probably copyright The Josef & Anni Albers Foundation: http://www.albersfoundation.org/ 16. Theme music is from the Logan's Run TV series. Awesome. Probably copyright CBS: http://www.tv.com/shows/logans-run/

• published: 10 Sep 2013
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