Brinolia’s Linguistic Learning

To be up to date, make sure you have posted/published your phonologies for Mandarin, Koine Greek, and Spanish (indicate the sounds you missed, maybe with a different font color). Also post your answers to the related questions. Also, please take a stab at vowel charts for your three languages and compare them to an online source, to each other, and to English). We'll hopefully record our yppaH yadhtriB video today. ++++++++++++++ Let's finish looking at diacritics. Watch these: Part 3: Vowel diacritics Part 4: Consonant diacritics Part 5: Review / less useful diacritics (optional) ++++++++++++++ We're going to start applying our phonological learning to creating a new spoken language. Start by watching  the first ~15 minutes of  this video on creating a language in 1 hour . In it, David J. Peterson leads people through the process of choosing sounds for a language. I want you to make your own choices (rather than following what they are doing). Transcribe your sounds into ...

Try this IPA quiz (British accent). Compare your Mandarin IPA chart to this one. Create a blog post about the two, noting discrepancies and anything you noticed / learned. This week, complete IPA charts for the other languages you're learning (Spanish, Greek). What sounds were included in all of the languages? What sounds weren't in any of the languages? Which were only in one language? Watch this video on diacritics . Homework: This week, complete IPA charts for the other languages you're learning (Spanish, Greek). What sounds were included in all of the languages? What sounds weren't in any of the languages? Which were only in one language? Record / post a new recording of  ˌ ɪedˈθrɜb ipˈæh. Let's plan the video this week. Search for a mandarin dictionary that has IPA pronunciation. Do at least 1 NACLO problem. Work on bday video plans w/ B and K.

IN CLASS Try this JetPunk quiz  - It's challenging because it's in a British accent. Sound them out and I'll type for you so you don't have to worry about spelling. Re-take this quiz and copy down into your binder all symbols you don't know. We'll learn/study them this week. Lastly, try this one on diacritics  and start learning the ones you didn't get. It's not specifically based on the IPA but these are common diacritics used in various languages. It's a good start. IPA SYMBOLS Building on some of our learning of the phonetic symbols, for homework, fill in the below chart as much as possible for at least one of the languages that you're learning (Mandarin, Greek, or Spanish). Try to do this on your own before consulting any outside sources. Bilabial Labio-dental Dental Alveolar Post-alveolar Palatal Velar Labial-velar Glottal Plosive ...