![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
gah
it's coming up with a handout every week that's going to kill me with this class. oy.
however, have successfully created first assignment. i think it's a good assignment! like, reinforcing different concepts in articulatory phonetics, and stuff, but without being hellish and strenuous and whatnot.
here is the assignment (to which i won't post the answers, yet, on the off -- way, way off -- chance that my students manage to find my LJ):
Section A
Give as much information as you can about the articulation of the sounds represented by the following symbols:
1. [g]
2. [l]
3. [p]
4. [d]
5. [n]
Section B
Give the symbols for the sounds with the following descriptions:
6. voiceless glottal stop
7. voiced bilabial (median) glide resonant
8. voiced bilabial nasal
9. voiceless interdental (slit) fricative
10. voiceless alveolar stop
Section C
Give as much information as you can, and the symbols, for the following sounds:
11. the first sound of the word "color"
12. the first sound of the word "yellow"
13. the last sound of the word "hiss"
14. the last sound of the word "his"
15. the last sound of the word "bring"
what's making things just a little sticky -- and this was the case last year, too, when i was taking the class -- is that the professor is very committed to bringing in the information, gradually, until it's all there, and then allowing that you don't always need all of it. so on the one hand, you get things like "these are the english consonants -- for now, anyway" (which IMO gets kids in the habit of thinking an answer is correct when it's actually incomplete), and on the other hand you get things like "voiced bilabial median glide resonant", above, when no linguist would describe that sound with anything more than "bilabial glide" (which gets kids in the habit of giving too much information, which -- academically -- isn't a bad thing, but does make a person look a bit amateurish).
but, there you go. pedagogy. it's a funny thing. (it's also a funny word. heh.)
[edited to add the bush quiz:
Your Bush is the VILLAGE IDIOT!
For you, all of Bush's antics have one simple
explanation: He's dumber than a bag of hammers.
The lights are on but there's no one home,
and he's got nothing but toys in the
attic. He got almost-elected on the strength of
his face and his last name, and all the hell of
the past 3 years is just what happens when a
man with the intellectual capacity of a
hormone-mad goat is at the helm of the most
powerful nation in the world.
That's Your Bush!
brought to you by Quizilla
seems about right to me.]
however, have successfully created first assignment. i think it's a good assignment! like, reinforcing different concepts in articulatory phonetics, and stuff, but without being hellish and strenuous and whatnot.
here is the assignment (to which i won't post the answers, yet, on the off -- way, way off -- chance that my students manage to find my LJ):
Section A
Give as much information as you can about the articulation of the sounds represented by the following symbols:
1. [g]
2. [l]
3. [p]
4. [d]
5. [n]
Section B
Give the symbols for the sounds with the following descriptions:
6. voiceless glottal stop
7. voiced bilabial (median) glide resonant
8. voiced bilabial nasal
9. voiceless interdental (slit) fricative
10. voiceless alveolar stop
Section C
Give as much information as you can, and the symbols, for the following sounds:
11. the first sound of the word "color"
12. the first sound of the word "yellow"
13. the last sound of the word "hiss"
14. the last sound of the word "his"
15. the last sound of the word "bring"
what's making things just a little sticky -- and this was the case last year, too, when i was taking the class -- is that the professor is very committed to bringing in the information, gradually, until it's all there, and then allowing that you don't always need all of it. so on the one hand, you get things like "these are the english consonants -- for now, anyway" (which IMO gets kids in the habit of thinking an answer is correct when it's actually incomplete), and on the other hand you get things like "voiced bilabial median glide resonant", above, when no linguist would describe that sound with anything more than "bilabial glide" (which gets kids in the habit of giving too much information, which -- academically -- isn't a bad thing, but does make a person look a bit amateurish).
but, there you go. pedagogy. it's a funny thing. (it's also a funny word. heh.)
[edited to add the bush quiz:
Your Bush is the VILLAGE IDIOT!
For you, all of Bush's antics have one simple
explanation: He's dumber than a bag of hammers.
The lights are on but there's no one home,
and he's got nothing but toys in the
attic. He got almost-elected on the strength of
his face and his last name, and all the hell of
the past 3 years is just what happens when a
man with the intellectual capacity of a
hormone-mad goat is at the helm of the most
powerful nation in the world.
That's Your Bush!
brought to you by Quizilla
seems about right to me.]