martes, 27 de agosto de 2013

Phonology


1.  What is the difference between phonetics and Phonology?  
     (Remember to cite your sources and use your concepts and language)

Phonetics
Phonology

Is the study of the sounds of human speech.

Is the study of the sound patterns of a language.

It studies HOW the sounds are produced by the voice in the vocal tract.


It studies HOW the sounds are organized and used in a systematic way.

It determines which phonetic sounds are meaningful  and how they are represented by speaker.


2.  Identify 3 goals of phonology. 

- Phonology explains the function of a phoneme into the language system.
- It explains which context and position are represented for each phoneme.
- It uses the structure of the syllabe.


3.  Define this words:  Phoneme, Letter, Digraph, Consonant cluster, allophone.


Phoneme:  is the basic unit of a language's phonology, which is combined with other phonemes to form words. Also, it serves to know the meaning of words.

Letter: Is a character that represent one or more sounds used in speech, and also it is one of symbols of the alphabet.   

Digraph:  Is a combination of two letter in order to represent a single sound in speech.    

Consonant cluster: It is a group pf consonants pronounced in succession, they dont have vowels between them.  

Allophone: Is ones of a set of multiple spoken sounds used to pronounce a phoneme.


4.  How many phonemes of English vowels are there?  Give an example of each.


5.  What is the stress of a word?  Mark the stress of the following words by underlining the syllabus. 

Is the force or strength which we pronounce each syllabe in a word and is because of that every word has different accent in a syllabe. 
We say one syllabe loudly and the other syllabes in a quiet form.

Table 

Happy 

Geographic 

Revelation 

Photography 

Critical

Greenhouse 

Understand








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