EXAMPLE ă, pronounced /æ/ as in apple,
ĕ, pronounced /ɛ/ as in elephant, ĭ,
pronounced /ɪ/ as in insect, ŏ,
pronounced /ɒ/ as in octopus, ŭ,
pronounced /ʌ/ as in umbrella.
Annotations:
vowels
Phonology
Humans have
different accents
Phonology
studies the
speech sound
in a particular
language
EXAMPLE. The movements the
body goes through in order to
create sounds - such as the
pronounciation of the letter "t" in
"bet," where the vocal chords
stop vibrating causing the "t"
sound to be a result of the
placement of the tongue behind
the teeth and the flow of air.
Variation
Characteristic of language.
There is more
than one way of
saying the same
thing.
Accent
Lexicon
Morphology and Syntax
EXAMPLE. The optional
pronunciation of -ing at
the end of a word as -in',
as in "I kept walkin'"
The International Phonetic Alphabet
Alphabetic system
Based on the Latin alphabet
That standardized
a representation of the
sounds of spoken
language
Represent qualities like
phones, phonemes,
intonation, and the
separation of words
and syllables