The book entitled “Phonetics and phonology to language learners” is written to provide students majoring English literature knowledge of sound system in language. This knowledge is very important to build up their awareness and sensitivity of language. The book concerns with the two branches of linguistics dealing with the study of language sounds, i.e. phonetics and phonology. The contents…
Phonetics is an essential part of linguistics, as it is through analysing spoken language that linguistic data is collected. This book leads the reader through the main areas of phonetics, including how speech sounds are made and how phoneticians classify them in certain ways, the International Phonetic Alphabet, and how sounds are transmitted from speaker to hearer.