jueves, 26 de marzo de 2009

PRONUNCIATION

Here are some good tongue twisters. How fast can you say them without making a mistake?
1.Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper, Where's the peck of pickled pepper, That Peter Piper picked?
2. She sells sea shells on the sea shore.
3. Red lorry yellow lorry.
4. The sixth sheikh's sixth sheep's sick.
5. Old, oily Ollie oils oily autos.
6. Tim the thin twin tinsmith.
7. Round and round the rugged rock the rugged rascal ran.
8. Does your shirt - shop stock short socks with spots?
9. An old scold sold a cold coal shovel. And finally, for those of you who thought that those were easy;
10. The Leith Police dismisseth us, I'm thankful, sir, to say; The Leith Police dismisseth us, They thought we sought to stay. The Leith police dismisseth us, We both sighed sighs apiece, And the sigh that we sighed as we said goodbye, Was the size of the Leith police.

DEFINITION OF PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY

Phonology (from the Greek: φωνή, phōnē, "voice, sound" and λόγος, lógos, "word, speech, subject of discussion") is the systematic use of sound to encode meaning in any spoken human language, or the field of linguistics studying this use. Just as a language has syntax and vocabulary, it also has a phonology in the sense of a sound system. When describing the formal area of study, the term typically describes linguistic analysis either beneath the word (e.g., syllable, onset and rime, phoneme, articulatory gesture, articulatory feature, mora, etc.) or to units at all levels of language that are thought to structure sound for conveying linguistic meaning. It is viewed as the subfield of linguistics that deals with the sound systems of languages. Whereas phonetics is about the physical production, acoustic transmission and perception of the sounds of speech, phonology describes the way sounds function within a given language or across languages to encode meaning.
IN MY OPINION: phonology is a system that the humanas use, and this system help us to have a good pronuntation. Phonetics is the way that we produce the sound.