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Theoretical Phonetics
Theoretical Phonetics
Session 1
Davydchuk V.
Task 1.
2.
1. Pronunciation
2. The communication
process
3. conceptualization
4. formulation
6. Phonetics
1. Phoneme
2. allophones
3. phonological analysis
4. conditioning environment,
1.Phonetics is the study of speech sounds. It involves description of the possible sounds of the
languages of the world, investigation of how the human vocal tract produces those sounds, and
the attempt to understand how such sounds are perceived.
2.The study of phonetics can be divided into three main branches: Acoustic, Auditory and
Articulatory
1) articulatory phonetics is the study of the way speech sounds are made (‘articulated’) by the
vocal organs;
2) acoustic phonetics studies the physical properties of speech sound, as transmitted between
mouth and ear;
3) auditory phonetics studies the perceptual response to speech sounds, as mediated by ear,
auditory nerve and brain.
3.Phonetics is the study of speech sounds as physical entities (their articulation, acoustic
properties, and how they are perceived), and phonology is the study of the organization and
function of speech sounds as part of the grammar of a language.
4.A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound that may cause a change of meaning within a
language but that doesn't have meaning by itself. A morpheme is the smallest unit of a word that
provides a specific meaning to a string of letters (which is called a phoneme).a sound in terms of
the movements of the organs of speech, the physical properties of the sound produced and the
features perceived by the listener.
B. Bloch: phoneme is a class of phonemically similar sounds contrasting and mutually exclusive
with all similar classes in the language.
L.V. Shcherba: the phoneme may be viewed as a functional, material and abstract unit.
7.A phonological opposition is of course formed between distinctive units (relevant features,
phonemes, archiphonemes, tonemes, architonemes) in respect of individual languages.