ENG 4339 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Received Pronunciation, Articulatory Phonetics, Close Vowel
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Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies the sounds made by the human voice in speech. Articulatory phonetics deals with the physiology of speech production. Phonology is a branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic organization of sounds in languages. It studies the sounds in a particular language or in languages generally. A phoneme is one of the smallest units of speech that make one word diferent from another word. When two words are identical except for one sound which changes the meaning of the word completely, the pairs of the words are known as minimal pairs. The diferent realisations of the same phonemes in diferent contexts are called allophones and are represented in transcription by diacritic symbols added to the phonemic ones. Allophonic variation does not change the meaning of the words. In english all sounds are articulated with an egressive stream of air i. e. the air is pushed out.
