BEGE 102 Completed

ENROLLMENT NUMBER : 146712408
NAME : RADHICKA JAIDEEP CHAUDHURI
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COURSE TITLE : THE STRUCTURE OF MODERN ENGLISH
ASSIGNMENT CODE : EEG-02/BEGE-102/TMA/2014-2015
STUDY CENTRE : 2868D
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1. Write short notes on the following:
i. Organs Of Speech- The various organs which are involved in the production of speech sound are called speech organs or articulators.. The study of speech organs helps to determine the role of each organ in the production of speech sound.
Articulators are of two types: passive articulators and active articulators. Passive articulators remain static during the articulation of sound. Upper lips, teeth, alveolar ridge, hard palate, soft palate, uvula, and pharynx wall are passive articulators. Active articulators move relative to these passive articulators to produce various speech sounds, in different manners. The most important active articulator is the tongue. The lower lip is other active articulator. But glottis is not active articulator because it is only a space between vocal folds. ii. Semi-Vowels of English- A vowel-like sound that acts like a consonant, in that it serves the same function in a syllable carrying the same amount of prominence as a consonant relative to a true vowel. Semivowels, by definition, contrast with vowels by being non-syllabic. In addition, they are usually shorter than vowels. Nevertheless, semivowels may be phonemically equivalent with vowels. The w sound and y sound are the only two semi-vowels (also commonly called glides) in English. These sounds can be created with slightly greater restriction in the