#Phonemes

[mapsontheweb]

Mapping the 'migration' of the PIE phoneme *gʷ across the IPA table, in descendants of the word *gʷḗn. Descendant languages changed it to at least 16 different sounds, and none of them preserved the original /gʷ/

[buckochamp]

Sometimes, you have to figure out juuuuust what level of animation fidelity you can achieve for a project that has a strict budget and deadline. Here's how I broke down some options for the client! In the end, we used a mix of rigged puppets in After Effects and moments of hand-drawn animation for impact.

[sillysanddweller]

theres this linguistic thing i cant stop thinking abou t where like. IDRK WHERE I HEARD ABT IT FROM it might be korean but i swear theres some language that like. has two of the same phoneme in a row . but not geminated its like distinctly two phonemes. specifically in the word. susujeo /sʊ.sʊ.d͡ʒo/ ?. okay so like this but the first two vowels get elided so its like /s.s.d͡ʒo/ but the /s/ dont sound like a geminate

it might be a stress thing? like /ˈs.s./

or maybe its a tone within the consonant? if thats a thing? /s˥.s˩/

its really inchresting to me . if anybody could educate me abt it or smth i would greatly appreciate

[awbrainno]

it's time to stop making fun of British people for saying "chewsday" and Americans for saying "chree" and start taking aim at the real enemy: the voiceless alveolar plosive /t/

[oyenisis]

[ɞ] is the best vowel sound. i will not elaborate

[chutoele]

introducing Nakopu

phonemes:

ʻ /ʔ/

a /ɐ/

ā /aː/

ai /ɐj/

au /ɐw/

e /ɛ/

ē /eː/

ei /ej/

h /h/

i /i/

ī /iː/

iu /ju/

k /k/

l /l/

m /m/

n /n/

o /o/

ō /oː/

ou /ow/

p /p/

u /u/

ū /uː/

w /v/

a priori

[misterparadigm]

Mallory Bash phonemes (mouth shapes).studios

[xero-degrees-kelvin]

Master Post

Alphabet:

a - b - c - d - e - f - g - h- i - j - k - l - m - n - o - p - q - r - s - t - u - v - w - x - y - z

Phonemes:

⟨æ⟩ - ⟨ɑ(ː)⟩ - ⟨eɪ⟩ - ⟨ɛ⟩ - ⟨i⟩ - ⟨ɪ⟩ - ⟨aɪ⟩ - ⟨oʊ⟩ -⟨u⟩ - ⟨ʊ⟩ - ⟨ə⟩ - ⟨ʌ⟩ - ⟨ju⟩ - ⟨aʊ⟩ -⟨oɪ⟩ - r-colored vowels

⟨m⟩ - ⟨n⟩ - ⟨p⟩ - ⟨b⟩ - ⟨t⟩ - ⟨d⟩ - ⟨k⟩ - ⟨g⟩ - ⟨tʃ⟩ - ⟨dʒ⟩ - ⟨f⟩ - ⟨v⟩ - ⟨θ~ð⟩ - ⟨s⟩ - ⟨z⟩ - ⟨ʃ⟩ - ⟨ʒ⟩ - ⟨h⟩ - ⟨l⟩ - ⟨ɹ⟩ - ⟨j⟩ - ⟨w⟩

Note: I am bias to my dialect of English

[aromanticannibal]

Phoneme [tumblr] go

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plosive phonemes ASSEMBLE

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BAM

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DUNDUN

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CHA CHA CHA

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??? dude youre not plosive???

mama-deactivated3414

isnt affricate the ssame thing as plosive?

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I'm going to kill you and your family

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anonymous said: lmfao hesitation phoneme

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yall are so fucking salty that im the backbone of the english language im fuckin everywhere im in all your favorite words you call me the hesitation phoneme because i am the sound everyone defaults to when they dont know what to say i am the center of the chart i am everything i am among us i am alive i am EVERYTHING

#pathetic fucking LOSERS #fucking hate in 2024 come on... we all know I'm the GOAT #fuck off anon i hope you... no i shant say it

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Rejoice... I am back from ban

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fuck NO not that guy again

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I mean you gotta hand it to em theyre the only one who still cares about nasal phonemes

#im back too btw #deleted cuz plosives tried to dox me #check my pinned for the callout xoxo

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I'm not gonnA lie gAys æ scares me a bit

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#like whAy do we need Another A Am rAight there <- this is typical anti-diphthong hate guys come on be smarter than that this isn't a silly fun post

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thAts so monophthong hate im blocking u!!!!!!!!

#im in the vowel discourse tag yall this is SO funny

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anonymous said: so uhhhhhh what are you? cuz like we already have ʒ so like

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I'm gonna have to put this in my FAQ damn. I'm <y>! Like in yay yall :)

#faq

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ok PLEASE dont take this the wrong way i want to learn but @/vowels : what the fuck is going on with ʒ, j and y

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Don't worry :) /ʒ/ = <j> like in jeans, and /y/ doesn't exist, but <y> is /j/ (me!!)

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it's so fucking stupid to use // and <> like what are you the cops??? bleh

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of course you would say that you could never be mistaken for a grapheme. dickhead

[dsm-wannabe-linguist]

what is the sexiest phoneme

them fricative brothers got me acting up

[whatslanguage]

Multiple-question anon here! I found the answer to my other question so thats why theres only one. But I saw that joke you reblogged. What does 'phonemically contrastive environments' mean?

This is the post anon is referring to

Also have a question about something language related? Check out my ask guidelines here.

Quick note on my IPA transcriptions: I was taught a General American accent and IPA alongside that, so I tend to default to that when transcribing English words, unless I'm explicitly talking about other varieties of English.

What is a Phonemically Contrastive Environment?

To start with the basics, a phonemically contrastive environment has to do with phonemes.

A phoneme is a specific category of speech sound. The phonology of a language is made up of several phonemes (consonants and vowels). Specifically, though, a phoneme is a contrastive sound. They can change the meaning of a word. For example:

<day> - /deɪ/ <they> - /ðeɪ/

These words differ in only one sound. You can't put a d sound in the place of a ð sound and still have the same word. Words like this, which are only different by one phoneme, are called minimal pairs. You can check whether two sounds are distinct from one another by trying to make one of these minimal pairs. Here's another one, but with vowels:

<pat> - /pæt/ <pet> - /pɛt/

These minimal pairs are examples of phonemically contrastive environments! They differ only by one sound.

This website has a list of minimal pairs for other English sounds (1). It is also possible that you replace one sound with another, but you don't get another word. In that case, you're dealing with allophones (short explanation at the bottom of the post).

It's important, however, to know that not all languages have the same phonemes. I picked these examples for a reason: Dutch does not have the /ð/ sound, nor does it have the /æ/ sound. People with a Dutch accent are very likely to pronounce they and day the same (both with a /d/, which Dutch does have)! They'll also do that with pet and pat (both with an /ɛ/). Even if they can hear the difference (which some people may not), it is still incredibly difficult to actually pronounce it.

Now, to explain the joke:

Until they're about a year old, babies can tell apart a lot of sounds. To actually learn the words of their language, though, they have to know which sounds are contrastive (i.e., phonemes), and which are not. Which ones change one word into another, and which ones are just a font change (allophones are more complicated but shush). The more phonemes a language has, the more contrastive environments a language-learning baby is exposed to. All the sounds that are not contrastive in their language get put on the backburner and go kind of ignored.

This skill of being able to tell many sounds apart is one that lessens as babies age, presumably so they can focus on more important parts, like all the phonological rules of their language(s). But this means that it will be harder to tell apart all those sounds that get put on the backburner. That's the experience the OP of the joke describes: the consonants they mention are strange sounds to them, they weren't provided with the tools (contrastive environments) to learn to tell them apart when they were really young (infancy), so they can't tell them apart now.

Criminally short explanation of allophones: allophones are the different ways in which you can pronounce a phoneme. Not all phonemes in a language have more than one, but they all have at least one (aka, they all have at least one way to be pronounced). If anyone wants me to go more in-depth on that, shoot me an ask and I'll make a separate post for that.

[zorbodile]

May's phone 😂 I love that they have a group named Hoenn Family <3

[rhllorthered]

My new pronouns are (The/the), pronounced "thee"/"thuh".

[dkniade]

Most people probably: uses a voicebank with phonemes native to the song they’re trying to cover (e.g. Japanese voicebank with Japanese phonemes to cover a Japanese song), or using cross-language synthesis if it’s on Synthesizer V Studio

Me: I will tune this French song with Japanese phonemes using the power of SynthV and phonology on my side, and as a bonus I will make one of the two vocals cry half way through

[k00285326]

Animation Week 1 - MiniMe Project

After researching phonemes, we started our MiniMe build. For my build I used cardboard and paper. I covered the cardboard in paper mache to hide the tape and paint it. I used brown paper for the hair and double sided tape to achieve the effect on the glasses.

I then cut out the mouth shapes I drew on paper for the sentence I wanted my character to say. Tomorrow I plan to edit together the frames I toom digitally in the computer lab.

[chutoele]

introducing arissi

vowels:

/ɑ/ a

/ɑː/ aa

/e/ e

/eː/ ee

/i/ i

/iː/ ii

/o/ o

/oː/ oo

/u/ u

/uː/ uu

/y/ y

/yː/ yy

/ø/ ö

/øː/ öö

/æ/ ä

/æː/ ää

consonants:

/d/ d

/h/ h

/j/ j

/k/ k

/kː/ kk

/l/ l

/lː/ ll

/m/ m

/mː/ mm

/n/ n

/nː/ nn

/p/ p

/pː/ pp

/r/ r

/s/ s

/sː/ ss

/t/ t

/tː/ tt

/ʋ/ v

arissi /ɑris:i/ also means hedgehog