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Phonological Knowledge Permits Us To

The document discusses the key concepts of phonology and phonemes. Phonology is the study of sound patterns in a language, as opposed to phonetics which studies speech sounds. Phonemes are the smallest units of sound in a language that distinguish meaning. For example, the /t/ sound in words like "tip" and "cat" are phonemes. Phonemes are abstract representations of physical speech sounds and allow speakers to produce new words and recognize foreign accents. The concept of the phoneme was developed in the late 19th century and further elaborated by linguists in the early 20th century.

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Phonological Knowledge Permits Us To

The document discusses the key concepts of phonology and phonemes. Phonology is the study of sound patterns in a language, as opposed to phonetics which studies speech sounds. Phonemes are the smallest units of sound in a language that distinguish meaning. For example, the /t/ sound in words like "tip" and "cat" are phonemes. Phonemes are abstract representations of physical speech sounds and allow speakers to produce new words and recognize foreign accents. The concept of the phoneme was developed in the late 19th century and further elaborated by linguists in the early 20th century.

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I-OBJECTIVES

II-INTRODUCTION

Phonology is "the study of sound pertaining to the system of language", as opposed to

phonetics, which is "the study of sound pertaining to the act of speech" (the distinction

between language and speech being basically Saussure's distinction

between langue and parole).

III-DISCUSSION PROPER

Phonology - deals with the system and pattern of speech sounds in a language.

Phonology of a language - is the system and pattern of speech sounds.

Phonological knowledge permits us to;

 produce sounds which form meaningful utterances,

 to recognize a “foreign” accent,

 to make up new words,

 To know what is or is not a sound in one’s language

 to know what different sound strings may represent

Segmental Units of Sound

Segments - any discrete unit that can be identified, either physically or auditorily, in the stream

of speech.

 In phonetics, the smallest perceptible segment is a phone.


Phones

 a speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties

 A particular occurrence of a speech segment

 The basic unit revealed via phonetic speech analysis

In phonology, smallest segment is phonemes

Phonemes

 Greek word phonema which means "a sound uttered"

 In human language, a phoneme is the smallest unit of speech that distinguishes

meaning.

 Phonemes are not the physical segments themselves, but abstractions of them.

 The /t/ sound found in words like tip, stand, writer, and cat are examples of phonemes.

History of Phonemes

The term phonemeas an abstraction was developed by the Polish linguist Jan Niecisław

Baudouin de Courtenay and his student Mikołaj Kruszewski during 1875–1895. The term used

by these two was fonema, the basic unit of what they called psychophonetics. The concept of

the phoneme was then elaborated in the works of Nikolai Trubetzkoi and others of the Prague

School (during the years 1926–1935), and in those of structuralists like Ferdinand de

Saussure, Edward Sapir, and Leonard Bloomfield.


IV-CONCLUSION

V-ACTIVITY

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