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Phonetics and Phonology: Course Outline(ENG-509)

Phonetics deals with the production of speech sounds by humans, often without prior knowledge of the language being spoken. Phonology is about patterns of sounds, especially different patterns of sounds in different languages.

Course Outline

UNIT 1: Branches-differences

Organs of speech

Places of articulation

UNIT 2: IPS Symbols

Consonants

Vowels, Plosives

Place, Manner

Voicing, devoicing

Environmental effect

UNIT 3: Fricatives

Place, Manner

Voicing-devoicing

Features

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UNIT 4: Affricates

Place

Manner

Voicing-devoicing

UNIT 5:Laterals Semivowels

UNIT 6: Vowels

Short

Long

Features

Diphthongs

UNIT 7: Stress and intonation

UNIT 8: High ,low,

weak, strong utterances

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