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1 ENGLISH PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY Lesson 3A Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology

2 Structure UsePragmatics Meaning (semantics) Grammar Medium of Transmission PhoneticsPhonologyMorphologySyntaxLexiconDiscourse Structure of Spoken Language (from Crystal 1997)

3 Branches of Linguistics Phonetics and Phonology Morphology and Syntax Semantics Pragmatics

4 Phonetics Study of the sounds of Speech Articulatory Acoustic Experimental

5 Phonology The study of the sound patterns in languages Phonemes (vowels and consonants) Prosody (stress, rhythm and intonation)

6 Morphology The study of the structure of words

7 Syntax The study of the ways in which words combine into units such as Phrase, Clause and Sentence

8 Semantics The study of the meaning of words and sentences, their denotations, connotations, implications and ambiguities

9 Pragmatics Anything relating to the way in which people communicate that cannot be captured by conventional linguistic analysis, includes discourse analysis

10 Why study phonetics and phonology? Of particular importance for learners of English as a Second Language (ESL) because it has a practical application English has a far larger repertory of phonemes than languages like Standard Italian English is not a phonographic language, i.e. spelling generally does give a clear indication of pronunciation

11 Standard British English v. Standard Italian EnglishItalian Pure Vowels127 (5) Diphthongs84 Consonants2419

12 English is not a phonographic language Many sounds have several different spellings, e.g. go, though, foe, slow, boat; or George, Joe, badge, village Many “same spellings” have different sounds, e.g. : though, cough, bough, through, thought, and enough.

13 The problem of pronunciation for learners of ESL Learners cannot rely on the spelling of a word The problem is the opposite for native speakers – English schoolchildren spend incredible amounts of time learning to read and esp. to write. Many adults have very poor spelling. To learn to pronounce English correctly it is of great help to learn to read phonemic transcription and/or have a CD dictionary with sound

14 Even the predictable combinations in English are different to those of other languages usually corresponds to / ei /, e.g. pain, paid, almost never to / ai / usually, but not always, corresponds to / tò / at the start of a word, e.g. cheese but not choir

15 Is English spelling really so erratic? 83% of English words have predictable spelling However, the remaining 17% is comprised of the most commonly used, everyday words Therefore the greatest difficulties are faced by the learner at the start

16 Why is English spelling so erratic? (1) Not enough vowel letters for vowel sounds English does not use accents, umlauts etc. English spelling reflects many archaic forms of pronunciation e.g. night in the past, was pronounced with a fricative

17 Why is English spelling so erratic? (2) English has always resisted spelling reforms and academies to set standards English spelling became fixed in the 16 th -17 th c. with the arrival of printing. Many of the printers were Flemish and had little knowledge of the language English has borrowed extensively from other languages and has tended to maintain original spelling

18 What is the difference between phonetics and phonology? Phonology deals with the sound systems languages Phonetics deals with the physical realisation of the elements of the sound system, e.g. how the sound is physically produced (articulatory phonetics), or the acoustic characteristics of the speech sound (acoustic phonetics)

19 Key concepts: the phone Each time a speech sound is produced it is different Each time you produce a /t/ it will be ever so slightly different Hence the concept of the phone: a physical realisation of a speech sound

20 Key concepts: the phoneme The smallest speech sound that has linguistic value When a series of phones are similar in terms of articulation and can be distinguished from another group in terms of meaning and collocation, the group is given a name e.g. /t/. This is a phoneme. The phoneme is an abstract term, specific to a particular language.