Phonetics: Basic Terminology
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Fonética y Fonología Para La Enseñanza Del Idioma Ingles I Licenciatura en Enseñanza del Ingles |
Margarito Hernandez Romero Matrícula/Número de identificación |
1.1 Essay: Presentation Phonetics Unidad 1/Módulo #1 |
Lic. María Elena Macías Díaz Infante 22 de Enero de 2017 |
Essay: Presentation Phonetics
Phonetics: Basic Terminology
The Speech Mechanism
The primordial prerequisite to develop a normal ability to talk is to be able to hear, this is because we as babies learn this skill by imitating the sounds others make, especially those of the mother. If a person is born deaf, he won’t be able to learn to talk, however, there are other ways to teach a deaf person to talk, but that is no the topic at hand. So the ability to speak depends on hearing. To convey a message and get the meaning of that message well understood by others, or for us to understand a message is absolutely necessary to produce the sounds of each word properly.
When the air in our lungs escapes through our throat and mouth, it produces only a sight or breath, so in order to produce the sounds of language is necessary the involvement of the speech organs or articulators. The vocal tract if composed by:
- Alveolar ridge
- Nasal cavity
- Palate
- Soft palate velum
- Uvula
- Tonsils
- Tongue
- Pharynx
- Epiglottis
- Vocal cords (glottis)
- Larynx
- Esophagus
- Thyroid Cartilage
- Hyoid
- Lower jaw
- Lips
- Teeth
International Phonetic Alphabet
The International Phonetic Alphabet or IPA is a visual representation of the sounds of speech, and is mainly based on the Latin alphabet. This alphabet is used by Lexicographers, foreign language students and teachers, linguists, speech-language pathologists, singers, actors, constructed language creators, and translators.
The IPA focus on the qualities of speech that are part of the oral language such as: phones, phonemes, intonation, and the separation of words and syllables. Letters and diacritics are the two basic types of symbols used by the IPA.
Phonemes and Allophones
The phoneme is the smallest unit of sound that can make a differentiation between one word and another, for example, bat and bad. While the allophones do have a change in the sound, but this change in the sound does not make a change in the meaning of the word. The differences in the way the same words are pronounced in American English and British English are examples of the allophones.
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