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HANOI OPEN UNIVERSITY ASSIGNMENT ON PHONETICS & PHONOLOGY E-LEARNING CENTRE Full name: Viet Trịnh Minh Date of birth: 16th of November 2021 Group: FHTM114C Question 1: What have you learnt in the course of phonetics and phonology? What makes you most interested? Why? Phonetics and phonology are as physical entities, and how they are perceived and processed by the ear and brain – phonetics, the study of speech sounds in general, and phonology, the study of the speech sounds used now and in the past by a specific language or group of related dialects or languages, provide indispensible information and insight Phonetics is particularly useful because you will learn exactly how the sounds of language are formed, and you will be able to produce them fairly precisely rather than simply using the most similar sound from your existing repertoire For instance, in Spanish voiceless stops are not aspirated as they are in some positions in English (the puff of air after an initial or final consonant), so an English speaker must learn to suppress aspiration In Spanish voiced consonants have a fricative form between vowels: /b/ becomes a [ẞ] in words like bebé [be’ẞe], /d/ is pronounced [ð] (voiced th like in ‘the’) in the second syllable of dedo [‘deðo], etc Consonants that are alveolar (coronal) in English (t, d, r, l, n) tend to be dental in Spanish (tongue against back of front teeth) The /l/ in Spanish is not palatalized the way it is in American English (back of tongue raised) Vowels are not automatically glides or diphthongs the way many tend to be in English ([e] vs [ey]) Each of these subtle factors will make a difference in how natural your pronunciation sounds Phonology is also useful but not as essential to the language learner It deals with how a language categorizes sounds into phonemes (basic units similar to letters) and how context affects how the phonemes are realized (as in the examples above) It is helpful for understanding why the same phoneme sounds different in certain contexts, so you’re not just parroting what you hear, it makes a bit of sense to you Question 2: How does Phonetics & Phonology help you learn other subjects and your career? Well phonetics will tell you how a sound is pronounced Phonology will tell you whether it is relevant or not Some phonetic differences are distinctive and others are not, depending on the language And most times, if you were not exposed to a given language, you will be phonetically (and possibly phonologically) deaf: you will simply not hear the differences between sounds Phonetics can help you understand how to pronounce the sound But still, it’s sometimes very tricky For example, in French we have almost the full paradigm of nasal vowels (except for central vowels like “eu” from “feu”, or “u” from “pur”) If your language doesn’t have these vowels, you’re going to have a very hard time distinguishing them and producing them correctly And that’s not good: “vin” is not “vent”, “cent” is not “son” If you are interested in the physical manifestations of language – how speech sounds are produced, what they are as physical entities, and how they are perceived and processed by the ear and brain – phonetics, the study of speech sounds in general, and phonology, the study of the speech sounds used now and in the past by a specific language or group of related dialects or languages, provide indispensible information and insight I’ve found the study of phonetics very useful in helping me learn the pronunciation of foreign languages It’s important to be good at imitating the sounds of a native speaker, but it also helps to know exactly what they are doing differently from your native language with their mouths and tongues N.B:* -The assignment can be typed or written by hand, then changed into PDF form (HANDWRITING IS PLUS) -Only answers in PDF form are accepted -The assignment which is copied or identical to others will be given mark