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    Phonetics And Phonology

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    The systematic study of speech and the sounds of language is referred to as phonetics. Traditionally phoneticians rely on careful listening and observation in order to describe speech sounds (Nolan, 2007). Phonetics is often defined with respect to phonology. Both disciplines are concerned with the sound medium of language. Phonology is concerned with the pattering of sounds in a language (and in language in general), and is thus comparable to areas of linguistics such as syntax and morphology which deal with structural elements of language at other levels. Phonetics is more centred on the way those structural elements are "realised" in the world, through movements of the speech organs which create the acoustic signal. Several types of events in the world produce the sensation of sound which includes door slamming, violins,…

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    Phonetic Alphabet

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    Phonetics is the study and identification of speech sounds. The phonetic alphabet is not the same as the English alphabet, although there are many of the same characters. In the phonetic alphabet, there are 14 vowels sounds and 24 consonant phonemes. When speech-language pathologists use the phonetic alphabet for transcriptions with their clients, they are able to use the transcriptions to plan therapy lessons according to their speech and language disorders. Without the use of the phonetics,…

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    Arabic is the official language in 22 countries, which also for the Arab league. It is also the second major language in Chad, Israel, Chechnya, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Turkenistan, Tajikistan, Bangladesh, Djibouti and Mauritania. In addition, Arabic is the language of the holy Quran, all Muslims irrespective of nationality are to some degree familiar with Arabic, and therefore influenced by how language works. The formal Arabic language is knows as Al-Fusha or Classical…

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    Introduction Before a child enters school, the child has some knowledge of language and how words work. Children are innately curious and teachers in early childhood programs need to foster children’s early literary through research based, developmentally appropriate literacy activities that fosters the essential skills that students need in order to build the foundation for learning to read. A huge component of this type of instruction is phonological awareness, which is an umbrella terms that…

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    Bulgarian language is an Eastern European language that consists of six vowels and thirty-five consonant phonemes. The vowels are (i, ɛ, a, ɜ, ɔ, u). On the other hand, American English contains of fifteen vowels and twenty-four consonant phonemes. The contrast between the numbers of vowels in those two quite distinctive languages is not the only dissimilarity. The main problem is the difference between the types of vowels that exist in both phonetic systems. American English consist of lax and…

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    structure of speech production mechanism involves how human beings produce sound (Honda 2003). When humans produce sounds it is one way in which humans communicate (Harrub, Thompson and Miller n.d.). Speech production mechanism involves different physiological structures that interact. Spoken language can be recognised through articulatory phonetics. Linguistic can be represented through articulator movements that in return make speech a way to transfer information. This can only happen with…

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    Spoken Language Research

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    The Motor theory has received numerous criticisms. One issue is that it implies that the ability to speak is required in order to perceive speech. However, speechless animals, such as monkeys can discriminate human speech sounds (Morse and Snowden, 1975). Research also suggests that babies and infants are able to perceive phonetic differences at birth, before they were able to speak (Eimas, Siqueland, Jusczyk & Vigorito, 1971). The argument made by Liberman that ‘speech is special’ has been…

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    Phonemic Awareness

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    Phonemic Awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds-phonemes in spoken words. Before children learn to read, they should become aware of sounds. They should understand speech from sounds, or phonemes (the smallest part of sound in a spoken word). Phonemic Awareness improves students' reading comprehension and allows young readers to build another important element of reading. There are three main elements of phonemic awareness: syllables, rhymes , and…

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    Abduction Lab Report

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    Voicing When we inhale, air passes into our lungs. Between our pharynx and trachea, each of us have a pair of vocal folds that separate when we do this. This process is called abduction. We use a small intrinsic muscle in our larynx that pulls the vocal folds apart allowing and allows air to move into our lungs. This causes the glottis to open from the back to the front, and the vocal folds wave from the back to the front. The posterior cricoarytenoid muscle is responsible for this…

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    Phonological Awareness

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    The first element of the reading process is phonological awareness, which is an auditory skill that requires children to analyses the sound of language into component sounds, before they begin the process of reading at the printed level (Matheson, 2005, p.22; Scull & Raban, 2016, p.153). For example, producing and identifying rhymes (such as how ‘mat’ rhymes with ‘sat’), isolating and segmenting letters and syllables (such as ‘n’ from ‘nose’), blending syllables, and exchanging sounds to make…

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