Unit 1 – Phonetics and Phonology 1.1 Introduction Phonetics is an empirical science which studies human speech sounds. It tells us how sound are produced‚ thus describing the articulatory and acoustic properties of sounds‚ and furnishes us with methods for this classification. Phonetics is divided into three main branches: - Articulatory phonetics: Studies the nature and limits of the human ability to produce speech sounds and describes the way these sounds are delivered. - Acoustic
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INTRODUCTION TO PHONETICS Communication is possible only with use of language. A language can be used in two ways for the purpose of communication .The two purpose of communication is spoken and written. Speech is more important medium than the medium of writing. USES OF SPEECH: *Speech comes first in history. *Speech comes first in the history of any individual. *Speech is used much more than writing as a medium‚ *Written language is an attempt to represent the sands used in spoken language
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inefficiency in communicating. This doesn’t mean you’re ill-suited for one another. This means you have to work on voicing the things that you may not innately understand about one another sans verbal cues. 2. It doesn’t look like you imagined it would‚ or they don’t look like you pictured they might. It’s not uncommon to end up more in love with the people who you least expect you’d want. You can have a relationship with someone who you don’t share a multitude of interests with. You just have
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INTRODUCTION TO PHONETICS COMDIS 210: Survey of Communication Disorders Definition of phonetics (Shriberg & Kent‚ 1982) • The study of the perception and production of speech sounds (phonemes). • The study of how speech sounds are produced and what their acoustic properties are. – Articulatory phonetics (concerned with how sounds are formed) – Acoustic phonetics (concerned with the acoustic properties of sounds) • Clinical phonetics involves the application
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Fitri Nurhandayani 2215120116 12 DAR English Phonetics and Phonology One Sound – Different Spelling 1. Vowels U = Cup /kʌp/ O = Done /dʌn/ Ou = Encourage /ɪn’kʌrɪd͡ʒ/ Oo = Flood /flʌd/ A = but U = Absolute /’æbsəu:t/ Ui = Nuisance /’nju:sns/ Ie = View /vju:/ Oo = Broom /bru:m/ Ue = Blue /blu:/ Ew = New /nju:/ OU = Oud /u:d/ A = Part /pɑ:t/ Au = Draught /drɑ:ft/ E = Eclair /eɪˈklɜ:/ A = Arid /ˈærɪd/ A = About /əˈbaʊt/ E = Broken / ‘brəʊkʌən/ O = Sofa /ˈsəʊfə/
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Phonetics and Phonology (definitions‚ activities‚ branches‚ phoneme‚ IPA‚ RP) Phonetics – the science which studies the characteristics of human sound making‚ especially those used in speech. It is a branch of linguistics concerned with the study of speech sounds and their production‚ transmission‚ reception‚ description‚ and representation by written symbols. – Major activities: description classification transcription – it can be
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Annotation’s made from David Abram Animism and the Alphabet In Animism and the Alphabet‚ David Abram‚ founder and creative director of the Alliance for Wild Ethics‚ goes in depth about how writing and the alphabet developed over the years by various groups of people. After annotating the text‚ I was able to consider the arguments presented by David Abram and found myself questioning many of his viewpoints. As I was reading my annotations‚ one that jumped out at me was when I wrote “may not be “true”
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Pronunciation Sounds and spelling There are 26 letters in the English alphabet but there are 44 sounds in the English language. This means that the number of sounds in a word is not always the same as the number of letters. The word ’CAT’ has three letters and three sounds but the word ’CATCH’ has five letters but still only three sounds. If we write these words using phonemic symbols‚ we can see exactly how many sounds they have. CAT is written /k æ t/ CATCH is written /k æ ʧ/ In ’CATCH’
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Report History of runic alphabets From ancient times mankind was appealed by unknown writings: half-forgotten antique languages‚ Egypt hieroglyphs‚ Indian inscriptions… The fate of runes was much happy – their sense wasn’t lost in the course of time‚ even when Latin alphabet became dominating one in Europe. For instance‚ runes were used in calendars till the end of the 18-th c. Modern linguists think that runes posses another kind of meaning‚ which we cannot find in ideograms‚ hieroglyphs
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LECTURE 1 1. History of phonetic development 2. Subject of Phonetics 3. Branches of Phonetics 4. Connection of Phonetics with other sciences 5. Methods and devices of phonetic investigation 1. History of phonetic development The “birthplace” of phonetics is considered to be Ancient India. The idea of studying sounds was brought about by the need to understand Veda (1500 BC)‚ i.e. sacred songs (brahmans) sang during religious ceremonies. The principal question for the
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