Phonetics

“Language is the capacity to gain and utilize complex frameworks of correspondence, especially the human capacity to do as such, and a language is a particular case of such a framework. The logical investigation of language is called linguistics” Estimating the quantity of languages in the world vary between 5,000 and 7,000. Common languages are talked or marked, however any language can be encoded into auxiliary media utilizing sound-related, visual, or material jolts. For instance, in…

The Yorkshire Ripper Hoaxer: case study of Speaker profiling and speaker comparison in Forensic linguistics 1. Introduction “[....] the listener does not necessarily hear what was said, but rather hears their construction of what they think is said; they subconsciously combine the speech signal (the sounds) with prior knowledge of speech, language and context in their own heads (Fraser 2003, cited in Coulthard, et al 2017 p.130). Those words, indirectly, call for reconsideration of…

Vertical dimension (VD) defined in the Glossary of Prosthodontic Terms as "The distance between two selected anatomic or marked points”. Occlusal vertical dimension (OVD) defined as "The distance between two selected anatomic points when in maximal inter-cuspal position”.(1) The OVD is determined by the repetitive contracted length of the elevator muscles which sets the jaw-to-jaw relationship.(2) During growth and development OVD affected by three factors: Growth of the ramus, gonial angle of…

Eliza Doolittle started off as a flower girl in the gutter, soon after a man named Henry Higgins a phonetic instructor brought her in and taught her how to speak like a duchess. However, Eliza has changed her outer appearance immensely, she remains the same woman internally. Eliza Doolittle has a very strong character. For example, while she is selling flowers on the street of London, a phonetic professor named Mr.Higgins is treating her like she is not important. In fact, Eliza says,…

original word but can have disastrous, widespread, effects on our understanding of other cultures. In the article Hocart calls for a solution to the issue of kinship extensions and offers the solution of “neutral notation” which would be similar to phonetic nomenclature. Precisely why this neutral nomenclature is so uncommon is also answered in the article; native words…

The Empires we have learned about have fallen from either political, economical, or societal instabilities. During the Iron Age, Empires were developed due to increasing technologies that has iron brought. Iron brought increased power which allowed for the creation of Empires. The Iron Age brought out the empires of Assyria and Persia. Rome rose from a Republic to an Empire through the increase in army power and control. These Empires thrived differently by using religious systems. Military…

At the precommunicative stage, children understand that writing is different from drawing and that it delivers messages. At the semiphonetic stage, children are able to differ between letters and sounds. At the phonetic stage, bilingual children realize that most words are written differently in one language from another. Achieving transitional stage, according to Rubin and Carlan, children use common spelling patterns as well as sounds they hear in words. At…

completed the analysis about the quantity of phonological transfer. Examples of phonological transfer were recorded when phonetically dissimilar sound so-called “unshared sound” in the specific language appeared in the other languages, or when a fine phonetic distinction specific to one language was found in the…

Many young teens think that the Mayans are just a boring topic they learn at history class. I have realized that it's the opposite, the Mayan culture was unique and fascinating. After being a group of roaming nomads, the Mayans settled in Mesoamerica in 2600 B.C, and declined, for a mysterious reason, in 900 A.D. In their time of prominence, the Mayans did advances in astronomy and mathematics, and developed a very complex writing system and a calendrical system. They also had a distinctive…

I tutored ESL for total of four student in ISU, and one of my friend in Japan by online. All of four students happened to be eastern Asian. One was Chinese and the other three students were Japanese. I taught Chinese student how to pronounce American English, two Japanese student for grammar, and one Japanese person for basic communication in English. All of four student react to learning differently, and nothing was consistent for them to learn English. However, after each session, I was…