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The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique
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Michael Olayinka Gbadegesin
The aim of this chapter is to expose the students to the English sound system in order to improve their spoken English. The chapterintroduces the learners to phonetics and phonology. It presents organs of speech briefly and focuses on the segmental features -English vowel and consonant sounds; their articulation, symbols and classifications. Though the expression of language can either be spoken or written, the spoken form is primary therefore, it forms the basis for the written form. This is evident in the fact that some languages, in spite of their functionality in their respective speech communities, have not developed orthography for their written form. Phonetics and Phonology are the branches of linguistics that study the sound production and sound combinations. Phonetics and Phonology are two different but related concepts. Though there are profound differences between them, there are also some areas of overlapping. Therefore, it is sometimes very difficult for many students to differentiate between the two concepts.
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Linguistics is an important tool to understand the meaning behind the language. Some of its branches are context-related, but the others are not. Phonetics and phonology are the free-context. These two are talking about sound, where this book is focused on. The purpose of this book is to introduce the phonology to the student. By knowing the process of sound, they could become better speaker of listener. Thus, we are not the native speaker of English, without knowing the tone or the assimilation of some words will make us confuse. That’s why phonology and phonetics becomes important on this case. To help the students find more about the issues covered in this book, each chapter ends with a set of exercise and some link of video that related to the topic. The exercise will enable the students to check their understanding of the main points or important terms introduced in the chapter. Meanwhile, the link of the video will provide an opportunity to figure out about how the patterns are applied in daily life. The students will be able to know more about the use of the pattern in native speaker way of speaking. This book is made from many references that can be found in the internet. Some of the references are not free, iv but the students still can find the related references with free e-book. This book is not complete edition to cover the whole phonology material. There is a lot of lack in this book. Therefore, it will be a quite useful input to have feedbackabout the content of this book.
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