PRONUNCIATION

PRONUNCIATION

1. Phonetics

   • The study of the minimal units that make up language.
   • Three branches:
     • Articulatory: Study of the production of speech sounds
     • Acoustic: Study of the transmission of the sounds.
     • Auditory: Study of the perception of speech sounds.
   • Phonetic transcription: Method of writing down speech sounds
   • Types of speech sounds
     • Suprasegmentals
       • Length stress, tone and intonation
     • Segments
       • Consonants
         • Voiced and Voicelss
       • Vowels
         • Monothongs and diphthongs

2. Phonology

   • The study of how sounds are organized within a language and how they interact with each other.
   • Sound pattern
     • Phoneme
       • Variant of the same sound
     • Allophone
       • Ways that a phoneme is pronounced
   • Phonological rules
     • Assimilation:
     • Dissimilation
     • Insertion
     • Deletion
     • Metathesis
     • Strengthening
     • Weakening

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