Tuesday, April 3, 2012

English Phonology: How Speech is Produce

Linguistic is the scientific study of language and includes study of phonology, morphology and syntax.

Phonemics is the study of sound, it units of meaningful sound in a language. Linguistics is the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) direct present of the sound found in human language. Phonology is study of the sound used by speakers of a particular language.


How speech is produce:
The sounds of English are for by vibration of the vocal cord. When the vocal cords are both close together as the air passes together through them, voicing occurs. When the vocal cords are hold apart, no voicing will occur.

Phonemes are divided into vowels and consonants. Vowels sounds depend on the movement and different positioning of the lips and tongue as air floats freely to them. There are 3 types of vowels (short, long, and reduce).

• There are 6 short or “Lax” vowels. Lax for first, the most attention of the mouth and lips as sounds is produce. The vowel sound in the word “pit, pet, pat, putt, put and pot” that present these various vowels.
• The Long vowels sounds are produce by moving the tongue from one part of the mouth to another. These sounds are called Diphthong (two sounds) as two sounds as produce when they are spoken. It always presented as 2 matter, such as:
‘ee’ in beet
‘ai’ in bait
‘oo’ in boot
‘oa’ in boat
‘oy’ in boy
‘ie in bite
‘ou’ in bout
• The Reduce vowels come into 4 ideas. The Ə (shwa) in about and hesitate sound made when speaker says umm… Word I is a high essential vowels, it can be heard in the second syllable of med/i/cine.