English Phonology!
Communication is very essential part of human life.They want to communicate through different medias, among the they love to talk most either face to face or telephone conversation and many more.People take it easily but human communication is not that easy the way people think it because sending and receiving message does not just include encoding and decoding system. Most of the time listener predict what they have heard and gives the answer on the basis of the prediction.Similarly social context also determines the meaning of the conversation.Most of the time word carries the non literal meaning than the literal one which gives very vast different meanings of the words.Using sound in communication has many more advantages.It helps other organs to do different works for example people can do work along with talking.
During normal communication a person can produce an average of eight phonemes. In phoneme production, the brain sends signal to the lungs, vocal cords, tongue and lips to contract or relax the muscles.Human have ability to use language to comprehend and produce meaning.
Linguistic is the scientific study of language and different linguists study different aspects of language.Here we are studying about how people learn the second language.The areas of linguistic such as phonology, morphology and syntax will help to evaluate the method of teaching second language.
Phonology is the study of the sounds used by the speakers of the particular language, and a phoneme is a sound that makes a difference in meaning in a language.different languages have different sets of phonemes.Physiology of speech describes about the place and manner of articulation.
There are three different types of vowels,such as short long and reduced.
consonants phonemes are produced by restricting or stopping the flow of air as it passes through the vocal tract.All the words of every language are the combination of vowel and consonant phoneme.Insight from linguistics in the area of phonology can be helpful for educators evaluating methods of teaching a second language.
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That's a good summary Binki, but I want to know what you think about these things since I've already read the chapters. I know you have very strong opinions about these things.
ReplyDeleteI thought we need to write summary of the chapter in this blog. Don't worry onwards you will find my opinions on the chapters.
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