発音をめぐる冒険

以前録画していた放送大学の『発音を巡る冒険』という講座を始めました。
一応、各地の英語を押さえてはいくようですが、ベースはイギリス英語です。
スタジオでのトークに字幕は付きませんが、テキストなしでも問題なさそうです。

発音をめぐる冒険―A WILD PRONUNCIATION CHASE (放送大学教材)

第1回 発音のススメ

vowels: 母音-bowels: 内臓
wrong-long
right-light

vowels
consonants

RP: received pronounciation
容認発音: 標準的なイギリス英語
People from Britain even can't tell where I was born.

The Brummie accent: Birmingham訛り

2つのアルファベット

• IPA: international phonetic alphabet: "/発音記号/"
• Phonics Alphabet: speaking alphabet(18′03)

(27′28)

"Hello, I was born in Japan. I live in a flat and I walk to work through the park every day."

南ミシシッピのニューオーリーンズ訛り
speak slowly like "cane cyrup coming out of a bottle on a cold morning"

"How are you feeling today?"
"I am as miserable as a polar bear in a Turkish bath."

Y'all.(You all)
Y'all come back! また会おうね!
Bye y'll! じゃあね

(35′07)

"I wondered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd.
A host of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
-William Wordsworth(1770-1850), 'The Daffodils'

Rhythm-Pronunciation

rhyme: 韻
life/ wife/ strife

An accumulative rhyme
A tongue-twister
(41′51)

This is the House that Jack Built

schwa: 曖昧母音(eを逆さにしたやつ)