Phonetics

With a vast background in coursework related to articulation and phonology, I feel that phonetic transcription is strength of mine. The one downside to this portion of the analysis was the quality of the recording. Live transcription is ideal, but it is not always possible. When listening to the recording, it was sometimes difficult to make…

share his sins with him. From the day onwards he understood the true mantra and ultimate truth of life. Since Ratnakar once being a murderer was not allowed to chant the mantra with the word “ rama” in it, hence Narada asked him to chant “mara” the phonetic anagram of the word Rama. He meditated with so much of devotion and paid no heed to the growing ant – hills around him. Finally a day came when a voice declared his penance successful and gave him the name “Valmiki”…

Texting and Driving There are many problems with texting and driving. Many people have perished from texting while driving. For somebody who infers some portion of his living from expounding on cell phones, I 'm incomprehensibly something of a cellphone curmudgeon in fact, an out and out phone curmudgeon. I value the utilitarian estimation of communication and related advances, yet I strenuously oppose the start that being reachable by telephone day in and day out wherever one may happen to be…

Speaking is one of the first things we learn in life. As a child, we start acquiring the words automatically and as we grow up and go to school, we develop our speaking ability by expanding our knowledge of the language and we learn writing as well. Both Speaking and writing are essential to communicate with others, and, in any language, there are different registers used by its speakers. These registers vary based on our age, proficiency of the language and the environment. The way we speak and…

Introduction Suprasegmental, also called Prosodic Feature, in phonetics, a speech feature such as stress, tone, or word juncture that accompanies or is added over consonants and vowels; these features are not limited to single sounds but often extend over syllables, words, or phrases. They are features over above the segmental values such as place or manner of articulation, thus the supra- in segmental.The term prosodic comes from poetry, where it refers to the metrical structure of verse. One…

English lies in grammar and phonology. These are the most regular and lasting features of the African American English. Phonology. Phonology can be defined as the sounds that made up a particular language (Lacombe, 2014). One of the most prominent phonetic feature of AAE is consonant clusters at the end of words. In situations where two consonants appear together at a word’s end, speakers of AAE usually drop one of the consonants (Lacombe, 2014). This happens in almost every dialect of English,…

Abstract: Developmental dyslexia is a learning disability caused by neurological differences in language processing, affecting approximately 5-10% of the U.S. populations’ ability to speak, read and write. Because of this difficulty with text, different forms of language representation, such as visual art-making, may provide students with dyslexia the opportunity to communicate their ideas and express themselves in educational settings. Positive outcomes for those with dyslexia include healthy…

“Freeing itself from the ancient phonetic laws” (Bragg 343), the maturing language expanded its vocabulary to reflect the increased permeation of French and Latin, and altered its pronunciation of vowels and consonants. Furthermore, English did away with the use of inflection to communicate…

It is believed that first evidence of artistic activity is a diagonal itching on a stone with a shark tooth, associated to Homo erectus around 500 000 years ago. However the oldest undisputed form of figurative art is a sculptured Venus figurine around 40 000 years ago. A time where human behavior hadn’t yet developed behavioral modernity which consists of abstract thinking and symbolic behavior among other things, yet art found its way. These first forms of art were not pure creation of the…

An area of Applied Psychology 1 that has captured my interest is the field of educational psychology. This field of study is interested with children and young adults in educational and early years’ settings (British Psychology Society (BPS), 2016). This has captured my interest as children are especially vulnerable during school years, due to a variety of reasons such as low self esteem. This could be due to learning difficulties such as dyslexia and behaviourial problems. I believe that I…