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Information about Filipino speech 1. A comparison between
Filipino and English phonology Aspect Language Number Details
SourceConsonants Filipino 23consonants /p, b, t, t, d, d, k, , , m,
n, , r, s, , h, j, w,
, , dy'/Malabonga&MarinovaTodd(2007)
English 24consonants /p, b, t, d, k, , m, n, , , , f, v, s, z, ,
, h, , , j, w, , l/
Smit(2004)
Consonantclusters
Filipino None (onlyinborrowedwords)
Malabonga&MarinovaTodd(2007)
English
Approx.29syllableinitialandmanysyllablefinalconsonantclusters
Many2and3elementconsonantclustersininitialpositionincluding/pl,
bl, kl, l, fl, sl, p, b, t, d, k, , , f, , pj, tj, fj, mj, nj, sm,
sn, sp, st, sk, spl, sp, st,
skw/andmany2to4elementconsonantclustersinfinalposition
McLeod(2007)Smit(2004)
Vowelsanddiphthongs
Filipino 5vowels+6diphthongs
Vowels:/a, ,,, u, , /Diphthongs:/a,,iw, ey, aw, uy/
Malabonga&MarinovaTodd(2007)
English(USGeneralAmerican)
14vowels+3diphthongs
Vowels:/i, , e, , , , , , u, , o, , ,
/Diphthongs:/a,a,/(Smitalsolists5rcoloreddiphthongs)
Smit(2007)
English(Canadian)
14vowels+3diphthongs
Vowels:/i, , e, , , , , , , , o, , , / Diphthongs:/, , /
Bernhardt,&Deby(2007)
English(UKReceivedPronunciation)
12vowels+8diphthongs
Vowels:/i, , , , a, , , u, , , , / Diphthongs:/a, a, , e, o, , ,
/
Howard(2007)
English(Australian)
12vowels+8diphthongs
Vowels:/i, , e, , , , , o, , , , /iOR/i, , , , a, , , , , u, ,
/iiDiphthongs:/, e, , , , , e, /iOR/e, a, o, a, , , , /ii
i Harrington,Cox,&Evans,(1997)iiMitchell(1946)
English(NewZealand)
12vowels+8diphthongs
Vowels:/i, , , , , , u, , , , , /iOR/ i, , e, , a, , , , , , /ii
Diphthongs:/a, a, i, e, o, i, e, /iOR/ai, a, i, ei, o, i, e,
/ii
i Bauer&Warren(2004)iiMaclagan(2009)
Tones Filipino 0tones English 0tones Syllableshape Filipino
CVC(01) Malabonga&
MarinovaTodd(2007)
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English C(03)VC(04) SmallestisVandlargestisCCCVCCCC. Smit
(2007)Stresstimedorsyllabletimed?
Filipino Stressusedtodifferentiatemeaning
Malabonga&MarinovaTodd(2007)
English Stresstimed
Syllablescanbestrongorweak.Stressalsoisusedforemphasis.
Varieties Filipino Somesayeightdialects,someminimal. English
Manydialects ManydialectsincludingGeneralAmerican
English,ReceivedPronunciation(England),ScottishEnglish,IrishEnglish,AustralianEnglish,NewZealandEnglish,SouthAfricanEnglishetc.
Writingsystem
Filipino Latinalphabet
Latinalphabetwithonetoonecorrespondencebetweensoundsandletters.Philippinescriptbaybayin.
Malabonga&MarinovaTodd(2007)
English Latinalphabet
Latinalphabetlooselyrelatedtophoneticrealizationsoftheconsonantsandvowels.
References
FilipinostudiesMalabonga,V.,&MarinovaTodd,S.(2007).FilipinospeechacquisitionInS.McLeod(Ed.),Theinternationalguideto
speechacquisition(pp.340350).CliftonPark,NY:ThomsonDelmarLearning.EnglishstudiesBauer,L.,&Warren,P.(2004).NewZealandEnglish:Phonology.InE.Schneider,K.Burridge,B.Kortmann,R.Mesthrie&
C.Upton(Eds.).AhandbookofvarietiesofEnglish:Vol.1.Phonology(pp.580602).Berlin,Germany:MoutondeGruyer.
Bernhardt,B.M.H.,&Deby,J.(2007).CanadianEnglishspeechacquisition.InS.McLeod(Ed.),Theinternationalguidetospeechacquisition(pp.177187).CliftonPark,NY:ThomsonDelmarLearning.
Harrington,J.,Cox,F.,&Evans,Z.(1997).Anacousticphoneticstudyofbroad,general,andcultivatedAustralianEnglishvowels.AustralianJournalofLinguistics,17,155184.
Howard,S.(2007).Englishspeechacquisition.InS.McLeod(Ed.),Theinternationalguidetospeechacquisition(pp.188203).CliftonPark,NY:ThomsonDelmarLearning.
Maclagan,M.(2009).Reflectingconnectionswiththelocallanguage:NewZealandEnglish.InternationalJournalofSpeechLanguagePathology,11(2),113121.
McLeod,S.(2007).AustralianEnglishspeechacquisition.InS.McLeod(Ed.),Theinternationalguidetospeechacquisition(pp.241256).CliftonPark,NY:ThomsonDelmarLearning.
Mitchell,A.G.(1946).ThepronunciationofEnglishinAustralia.Sydney,Australia:Angus&Robertson.Smit,A.B.(2004).Articulationandphonology:Resourceguideforschoolagechildrenandadults.CliftonPark,NY:
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acquisition(pp.128147).CliftonPark,NY:ThomsonDelmarLearning. 2.
Filipino speech assessments
ForalistofspeechassessmentsinFilipinosee:www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingualspeech/speechassessments3.
Monolingual speech acquisition (summaries and studies written in
English)
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