UNIT 3 PHONOLOGY
Phonology is
the study of sounds features
used in a language by humans to communicate. Focusing on the English language
we have phonemes,
word stress,
sentence stress
and intonation.
However, a
phoneme is the smallest unit of sounds which makes a difference to meaning in a
language. The phonemes of English are often shown in a phonemic chart which
is kind of complicated to memorize all its elements but very useful at the
moment of recognize the sounds. This chart includes a group of vowels sounds which
are made with the mouth partly open and where the air is not stopped by the
tongue, lips or teeth, there also diphthongs
which is the movement from one vowel sound to another like for example in
the word take /teik/ . Also this
chart contains consonants
that the flow of air is partly blocked by the tongue lips or teeth when we make
these sounds. At this point I have to mention that there are two kinds of
consonants: voiced sounds
which are spoken using the vibration of our voice such as /b//d//g/ and
unvoiced sounds which are spoken without using our voice such as/p//t//k/.
In conclusion, “Language appears to be much
more complex than is generally assumed and this complexityis important for
theories of speech production and comprehension” (John A. Goldsmith, 2011) so phonology is one
of the most important subjects because it helps speakers to make sounds
correctly and obviously to have a good pronunciation, which is why I would like
to ask my students to work a lot of phonemic transcriptions in order to let
them learn the phonemic chart.
(Giegerich, 1992)
location of vowel
video: how to teach phonology
Bibliography:
Giegerich, H. J.
(1992). English Phonology: An Introduction. United Kingdom.
John A. Goldsmith,
J. R. (2011). The Handbook of Phonological Theory. New York.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM5OgB7ycfg
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