Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Online Assignment #1

You can find many definitions of what is phonetics, and it is really hard to decide which one is the best.  That’s why I chose six definitions that in their particular way address important aspects of what is phonetics and what studying phonetics involves.
Here they are:
  1. Phonetics is the study of the articulatory and acoustic properties of the sounds of human language.
  2. The branch of linguistics that deals with the sounds of speech and their production, combination, description, and representation by written symbols.
  3. The system of sounds of a particular language.
  4. Phonetics (from the Greekφωνήphōnē, “sound, voice”) is a branch oflinguistics that comprises the study of the sounds of human speech.[1] It is concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds (phones): their physiological production, acoustic properties, auditory perception, and neurophysiological status.
  5. The study of speech sounds, their production and combination, and their representation by written symbols.
  6. The description and analysis of the sounds of a particular language.
Now you have an idea what is phonetics.  Now, I encourage you to write a paragraph about what do you think learning Phonetics is important for you as a B.A. in English student?  Just click on the post a comment section.

10 comments:

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  2. for my, the phonetics is the stady of the articulatory where to do the sound, so, giving written symbols to better understand human language, stady ,so, their production, combination ,description and representation by symbols.
    Being thus an important pillar for the learning of any other language, since without the study of the sounds, we would not know where nor how to produce sounds of another language.

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  3. The phonetic is very important because study of speech sound, the articulation of the sounds the our language. Is represented by written symbols

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  4. The phonetics helps us to stimulate him heard, to pronounce each word better than we were not sure how his pronunciation was. Is an important subject for him handling the English language when we understand the phonetic we have made a breakthrough.

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  5. Learning phonics will help you to read and spell. Written language can be compared to a code, so knowing the sounds of letters and letter combinations will help you decode words. If you study phonetics you'll have a better pronunciation, and I know that we'll improve ours English.

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  6. For me, Phonetics is an important tool to be successful in a conversation. making the receiver understand the sound that the emitter produces through a language.
    It is also important to know each symbol to know the language that is being spoken.

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  7. i am Gisel Pèrez , I consider that the study of phonetics is important and that it allows us to speak in an appropriate way, allowing us to be understood by native speakers, for me phonetics explains in detail the sound and the pronunciation of words and this is very interesting.

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  8. The study of phonetic is fundamental as the basic tool for the correct pronunciation of the idiom, to know the correct sound of the words we can avoit the commont mistakes because is not our native language and provide us the knowledge and the confidece to speak good english.

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Online Assignment #4

Dear Students,    In our previous session, we reviewed the high front vowels and became familiar with the rest of the front vowels.  Here a...