Phonetics & Phonology An Introduction Sarmad Hussain Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing‚ NUCES‚ Lahore‚ Pakistan sarmad.hussain@nu.edu.pk Levels of Linguistic Analysis Pragmatics Semantics Syntax Morphology Phonology Phonetics www.PANL10n.net 2 Overview Phonetics Phonology Computational Phonology www.PANL10n.net 3 Phonetics What is Phonetics ? Study of human speech as a physical phenomenon Articulation Acoustics Perception www.PANL10n.net 5 Articulatory
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PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY: ENG 221 {LECTURER: MRS FALEKE V.O} 200 LEVEL COURSE CONTENT (i) Introducing Phonetics a. What is Phonetics? b. What is Phonology? c. The Three Branches of Phonetics d. Types of Phonology e. Aspects of Phonology f. Phonetics and Phonology any Relationship (ii) The Organs of Speech and Human Speech Mechanism a. The Organs of Speech b. The Human Speech c. The human Speech Mechanism d. Description of the English Consonant e. Description of the Vowel Sounds
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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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PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY Seminar Ante Marunica INTRODUCTION Prescriptivism and descriptivism Throughout the ages‚ grammarians and linguists have been attempting to formulate the speakers’ grammar in a set of rules‚ though it is probably fair to say that they have not yet been able to do so
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Introduction English is a widespread language‚ spoken all over the world. It is the mother tongue of people of different nationalities‚ such as: British‚ American‚ Australian‚ Canadian and South African. It is the second language (language of instruction‚ used in administration and education) of several countries in Asia and Africa and it is learned as a foreign language in almost every country. Languages have different accents meaning they are pronounced differently by different people depending
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FONOLOGÍA II AN ANALYSIS OF A SPEECH SAMPLE IN WHICH UNDERLIE A VARIETY OF ENGLISH VOWEL SOUNDS Authors: Aymara Villasmil Daniel Rodríguez CARACAS‚ FEBRERO DE 2011 INTRODUCTION Throughout the years‚ a variety of famous linguists have made an attempt to define the difficult question of what language is. For instance‚ Halliday (1973) affirms that language is an instrument of communication among members of a
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Introduction Phonetics and phonology (both from the Greek root phono- ’sound ’) are two branches of linguistics that deal primarily with the structure of human language sounds. Phonetics is concerned with how sounds are produced; transmitted and perceived (we will only look at the production of sounds). Phonology is concerned with how sounds function in relation to each other in a language. In other words‚ phonetics is about sounds of language‚ phonology about sound systems of language
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Phonetics: In order to produce sound humans use various body parts including the lips‚ tongue‚ teeth‚ pharynx and lungs. Phonetics is the term for the description and classification of speech sounds‚ particularly how sounds are produced‚ transmitted and received. A phoneme is the smallest unit in the sound system of a language; for example‚ the t sound in the word top. Various phonetic alphabets have been developed to represent the speech sounds in writing through the use of symbols. Some of these
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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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Section 1 An IntroductiOn to English phonetics and phonology 1.1. Speech mechanism 1.1.1. Speech chain Speech as the main means of communication is the result of a complicated series of events‚ which involves the speaker and the listener. On the part of the speaker‚ speech activities involve the following stages. 1.1.1.1. Psychological stage: this is the process during which the concept is formed in the speaker’s brain. Then‚ through the nervous system this message (concept) is transmitted
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