Introduction

My name is Angela Senis and I have been teaching English phonology in France (Sorbonne Nouvelle University & Bordeaux Montaigne University) for a few years now. So what you will find here is based on my teachings.

Why? because I know pretty well that working alone during a lockdown situation can prove a challenge. So I have decided to give my students - and more largely any student who would need it - a free access to my lessons. I have also developed exercises that should help you practise. I hope it helps!

You will need to create an account to access the lessons. The reason is quite simple, it will allow you to keep track of your scores when you are working on the exercises. That way, you can assess your own progression. I think it is really important to give you the means to do so... 

The only thing I ask from you is to respect my work by crediting me if you use it. Any commercial use is strictly forbidden.

I have tried to proofread everything, of course, but if you see anything misspelt / wrong / unsatisfactory feel free to email me (angela@senis.org)

PS: the available lessons are linked, the others will follow as soon as possible ;)


    Available courses

    Phonetics and phonology Level 1


    The first level is mainly devoted to :

    Final test

    Phonetics and Phonology Level 2

    This chapter is mainly devoted to graphophonemics and so specific phonological issues:
    • Graphophonemics: vowels digraphs
      • Vowel digraphs:  < aV >
      • Vowel digraphs < eV > 
      • Vowel digraphs < iV > , < yV >
      • Vowel digraphs < oV > 
      • Vowel digraphs < uV > 
    • Graphophonemics: consonant monographs
      • < h >
      • Silent consonants

    Phonetics and phonology Level 3

    The third level is mainly devoted to stress and intonation in:

    • Grammatical items
      • Generally unstressed grammatical items (context-free)
      • Generally stressed grammatical items (context-free)
      • Stress of grammatical words in context
    • Tonicity

    Phonetics and phonology Level 4

    This fourth level is mainly devoted to varieties of English, how to identify them, how to better understand the different varieties of English:

    • Irish English
    • Scottish English
    • Welsh English
    • Australian English

    Phonetics and phonology, level 5

    Now that you have acquired all that knowledge about phonetics and phonology, here are some hints at what you can do with it :

    • Diachrony
      • Old English
      • Middle English
    • Phonesthesia
    • Auto-segmental phonology