Absolute English basics - Phonetics and sentence structures
Hi there!!! Let's focus on 'phonetics'
Glossary of important terms related to today's topic :-
Phonetics is the study of the range of sounds which occur in speech, including the way they are produced by the speech organs and their acoustic properties.
Learning phonetics help in recognizing both familiar and unfamiliar sounds, improves pronunciation skills, and develops autonomy in words and sound recognition.
Phonology is the study of the distribution of and the relationships between speech sounds, i.e, the system of sounds of a language.
Pronunciation is the way of producing a spoken word, especially so that it is accepted or generally understood.
Allophone : It is a variation in the pronunciation of a phoneme and does not affect meaning.
Phonemic symbols : These were developed so that both linguists and language learners are able to distinguish between sounds without the confusion of English spelling. Some of these symbols look just like the Roman alphabet.
English language has just 26 letters, but more than 40 sounds, known as phonemes.
A phoneme is an abstract unit of sound, the smallest unit of sound which is connected to meaning.
Phonetic symbols are always written between slashes, so that the words mat and bat are transcribed as /mæt/ and /bæt/
Phoneme example(s) in English
/p/ play, happen, cap
/b/ baby, double, tab
/t/ tidy, flat, hint
/d/ dust, dad, cuddle, bed
/r/ butter, letter, greatest
/k/ cow, chemistry, queen, box
/g/ great, haggis, hug
/f/ fan, half, cough, often, calf
/v/ vile, Stephen, have
ð/ there, feather, teething
/s/ speak, sun, hassle, mess
/z/ zebra, hazelnut, houses
/ʃ/ sure, chic, fish, harsh
/ʒ/ beige, occasion, vision,
exposure, usual
/tʃ/ chores, culture, hatch
/dʒ/ just, judge, sage, agency
/m/ mother, jammer, ham, comb
/n/ night, know, hen
/ŋ/ sing, sang, sung
/h/ who, have, house
/l/ loud, hallway, hello, frugal
/r/ read, write, arrow, drawer
/j/ you, onion,
/w/ what, quick, choir
/i/ eagle, perceive, sea, friendly
/ɪ/ sit, in, fringe, gym, lid
/ɛ/ friend, left, bury, berry
/æ/ mad, laugh, academic,
vary
/ə/ about, haven’t, honor
/ʌ/ utter, mud, double
/u/ too, two, blue, maneuver
/ʊ/ took, should, pulpit
/ɔ/ honest, saw, flaw
/ɑ/ clock, sauce, frog,
/oʊ/ open, goat, flow
/eɪ/ Asian, name, fray
/aʊ/ ouch, shout, now
/aɪ/ eye, tidy, cry
/ɔɪ/ joy, buoyant
/ɪəʳ/ hear, beer, we’re
/eəʳ/ bear, chair, their
/ʊəʳ/ allure, tourist
/ɜʳ/ urn, curb, journey
/ɔʳ/ or, more, war, oracle
/ɑʳ/ armor, car, farce
Try to notice the sound in the word .Which syllables are involved in that particular sound making process.
That's the gist of this lesson. This lesson is very important if you want to pronounce the word correctly and
also without spelling mistakes while writing and of course while reading and speaking.
All these sounds are very important to learn and practice during reading, writing and speaking
which will reach you to perfection and bring out your perfect and flawless English .
That's enough for today . Happy learning....
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