Grunwell done well? (Sorry, it's been a long day...)

Y13, I came across this Quizlet that someone has prepared to learn the typical ages that children acquire phonemes from. Add it to your list of private study tasks.

Year 12 Phonology homework

Research and make notes on the following terms for Tuesday's lesson (8th November)


Alliteration
Assonance
Sibilance
Consonance
Paralinguistics
Prosody
Sibilance
Glottal Stop
*How are different consonants described?
*What is the difference between phonology and phonetics?

Year 13 Week 2

We have now covered phonology, so you should be starting to draw together your notes and could start making some revision materials. Use my earlier blog post to check that your notes are comprehensive. Check off the terminology you have learnt against the A3 sheet I gave you last week and start to learn it.


I have put a document about reduplication here in the google drive for those of you would like some wider reading.


Revise phonological acquisition concepts and theories for as assessment next week :)


13C - for Thursday's lesson, please make sure you bring 2 style models that match what you are intending to write. 1 of your style models should be fully annotated. Transfer your ideas onto the A3 sheet to draw together some style points that you are going to try to use in your own writing.

CLA Phonology Concepts Revision

Make sure your notes include references to all of these concepts so that your revision will be easy-peasy:

Key concepts (AO2)

-       Babies live in an auditory world - remember to think about the sounds in words and not the written forms of the words

-       Babies predisposed to discern sounds – favour mother’s voice from few hours after birth and recognise own language. Mehler

-       Phonemic contraction occurs by 10 months – sounds reduced to those of babies’ own language

-       Proto-words  and babbling follow CVCV pattern favoured by English (cooing is just vowels - easier)

-       ‘Mistakes’ that children make: Substitution, deletion, addition, assimilation, metathesis, consonant cluster reduction, weak syllable deletion, final consonant deletion, reduplication 

-       Fis phenomenon (comprehension precedes production) 

-       Cruttenden 1974 football results (intonation takes long time to reach adult understanding)

-       Stages - Phonological acquisition very varied between different children but general patterns: initial consonants easier than final ones, plosive sounds easier (p, b, k etc); David Olmstead – age of 4, some sounds still difficult: l (middle of words), th, ch, dg (judge); Grunwell stages; Phonological development generally complete by age 6 – 7. 

How are the Kardashians and Lena Dunham changing women's speech?

I heard a nice little piece on the radio over the summer whilst driving my kids to Fountain's Abbey - they were thrilled to be listening to Radio 4 ;)

If you have a spare ten minutes have a listen. It describes how the phenomenon of 'Vocal Fry' has increased recently, led by certain celebrities. You can find it here: Vocal Fry on Woman's Hour

You can also listen to some examples of vocal fry on youtube too, if you have a hunt around.