English Phonetics

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25.517.963 Albuja Juan 24.723.046 Pernas Jose25.431.392 Pirela JorgeProf: Juan Lara

THE ENGLISH ALPHABET

ABCDEFGHIJKLM

abcdefghijklm

[ei][bi:][si:][di:][i:][ef][i:][ei][ai][ei][kei][el][em]

NOPQRSTUVWXYZ

nopqrstuvwxyz

[en][ou][pi:][kju:][a:][es][ti:][ju:][vi:][dblju:][eks][wai][zed] or [AmE zi:]

PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY

Phonetics (from the Greek word phone =

sound/voice) is a fundamental branch of Linguistics

and itself has three different aspects:

Articulatory Phonetics: describes how vowels and

consonants are produced or “articulated” in various

parts of the mouth and throat;

Acoustic Phonetics: a study of how speech sounds are

transmitted: when sound travels through the air from the speaker's

mouth to the hearer's ear it does so in the form of vibrations in the

air

Auditory Phonetics - a study of how speech

sounds are perceived: looks at the way in which the

hearer’s brain decodes the sound waves back into

the vowels and consonants originally intended by the

speaker.

ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION

We use the term ‘accents’ to refer to differences in

pronunciations.

can vary with cultures, regions and speakers, but

there are two major standard varieties in English

pronunciation

TYPES OF PRONUNCIATION

Within British English and American

English there are also a variety of accents.

Some of them have received more attention than

others from phoneticians and phonologists.

These are Received pronunciation (RP)* and

General American (GA).

THE SOUNDS OF ENGLISH AND THEIR

REPRESENTATIONIn English, there is no one-to-one relation between the system of writing and the system of pronunciation. The alphabet which we use to write English has 26 letters but in (Standard British) English there are approximately 44 speach sounds. The number of speech sounds in English varies from dialect to dialect, and any actual tally depends greatly on the interpretation of the researcher doing the counting.