Hello Mr. Evan Ashworth. It's 2014 video but I watch it on 2023. I want to thank you because of your very good presentation of phonetics, and I admit that you are a great presenter because I can understand all your explanation very clearly as an audience. Once again, thank you so much.
My teacher was out sick today so I'm watching this in my room right now. I'm glad class was canceled because when you said, "You are not human" I was CRACKING UP for a long time.
Evan definetly explains clearly and ı think found the best way for our ''easy'' understanding. Moreover he has smooth accent, it works on non native Eng speakers. Thank you Ev!
i was about to confess that i count feel vibration when saying /s/ when i realized it has blown my cover as an alien spy from planet Sun ; you got me Professor .
I love this. The story of language is a book on this. I no phonetics, not so much allophones. Actually, I do. I could have become a speech specialist for kids. One option. Simultaneous interpreter was what I wished for the most. Thank you.
Thank you very much. I’m studying in the university and the explanation wasn’t very good, but after this video I understood a lot of things. Thank you for it❤❤❤❤❤
Sir would you continue to make English video content? Its really help me a lot as a English Student, sometimes i get confused when understanding the material in class, but when i saw your video it make me understand
Hi Anna. Well, devoicing and aspiration CAN occur in the same environment (e.g., "cat" + PLURAL = [kæts]-- note that PLURAL is devoiced after form ending in voiceless stop vs. "hands" [hæanz"] where the plural is voiced because it follows a voiced stop) but they don't have to. Also, if I understand your question correctly, devoicing and and aspiration affect different groups of sounds in the sense that, for example, the PLURAL morpheme can either be realized as voiced [z] or devoiced [s], but aspiration pertains (almost always) to voiceless stops. I hope that helps!
Hey! Hope, you're doing well. I think you have stopped making videos on linguistics. It's my humble request. If you have enough time from your busy schedule for making videos. Please continue this practice once again for us.
My apologies for my years-late response, but the reason these categories are left out is because, when I initially created this video, the target audience was literally students in an introductory linguistics class I was co-teaching, and I wanted that discussion to mirror the discussion (and layout) as was in the textbook The Study of Language.
Hello! For now the focus of my channel is on (introductory) linguistics topics, specifically, but I may make a video about methodology in the future. There are RU-vid videos that address this topic, but in short a methodology is the process and/or the theoretical framework that governs a researcher's study design and use of research methods. For example, the way researchers might employ the use/method of audio-recorded dialogue would differ for those working within a discourse analysis methodology as compared to a conversational analysis methodology. I hope this helps!
Hello sir I am from Quetta ,Pakistan Could you please make a video upon " what's the basic difference between vocalic and voiced sounds" .it seems similar to me but people out here are differentiating these sounds .. If you could help me ,that would mean a lot for mee.
Hello! I suppose it depends what you mean by "vocalic" but if you mean "vowel", I would only say that vowel sounds can be voiced but they don't have to be. For more information about vowel sounds, you might want to check out this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-u7jQ8FELbIo.html
This is a great suggestion! I will consider working on such a video, although, admittedly, there are very few of these shortcuts (e.g., "interdental" means "between the teeth", for sounds like the "th" in "teeth" or "fricatives" are sounds that involve some "friction" like [s], [z], and [f]). A lot of the terms just have to be memorized, unfortunately.
Thank you so much teacher ❤️ , but i have a question , How can we account for the fact that glides are not vowels although they are produced with no instructions ?🥀 This confuses me 🤦🤦
Hi Reem. You're right that glides are very vowel-like, but glides do still have places of articulation. For example, [j] (the "y" sound) is produced with the tongue approaching very close to the hard palate and there is some construction of airflow (though not very much). Also, [w] is labio-velar. So even though these sounds are vowel-like we can still use the same criteria we use for the other consonants to describe them.
Well, I am literally years late in my response (sorry about that!), but glides are not quite vowels (often called "semi-vowels") because glides approach and come very close to touching a place of articulation). Much less distance, in fact, that with vowels. I hope that helps!
