The purpose of course.

The purpose of course is not simply to explain how English is pronounced, but this course is to teach the English sounds, how they are used in the English language. Phonetics can be studied form two points of view: 1. From the points of view of phonetics; 2. And from the point of view of phonology. Phonetics is the study of the way humans make, transmit and perceive sounds. It is divided into three main branches, corresponding to these three distinctions: articulatory phonetics: the study of the way the vocal organs are used to produce speech sounds. Acoustics phonetics: the study of the physical properties of speech sounds. Auditory phonetics: the study of the way people perceive speech sounds. Phonology is the study of the sound systems of languages, and of the general properties displayed by these systems. By contrast with phonetics which studies all possible sounds, that the human vocal apparatus can make, phonology studies only those contrasts in sound (the phonemes) which make differences of meaning within the language. When we listen carefully to the way people speak English, we will hear hundreds of slight differences in the way individuals pronounce particular sounds. A phonetician would be interested in describing exactly what these differences of articulation are in one word, phonetics deals with describing the sounds that we use in speaking. When we talk about the phonemes function in language and the relationship among the different phonemes we study the abstract side of the sound of the language that is phonology. Only by studying both Phonetics and Phonology it is possible to have full understanding of the use of sounds of English speech.

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