The pronunciation of English
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sabato 10 maggio 2008

A brief Introduction

by Ademario Lo Brano 

 

Dealing with the Pronunciation of a language we should keep in our mind the way people speak. Speaking involves different matters:

  1. - what words people choose;

  2. - how they put them into a structure, that's to say their correct position;

  3. - what meaning (or message) people think they are going to communicate; that's to say if they match correctly the structure to its function in the social relationships;

But what is immediatly received by a listener is how the speaker pronounces, or the sounds he/she produces.

And Phonetics  is concerned with the sounds  of spoken language...As we know people do not speak exactly alike all over the world, especially according to different social status, geographical areas. All the human sounds in the speaking process are strictly related to the nature of the message, and if it is usefully received by he listener,  which is the  main target of communication. The effort of the phonetician is managing the different sound system each language in the world has. But also in the same country there are differences. Within English itself we can listen to different ways of speaking: American English, Scottish, Welsh or English accent. But even within each accent there are broader or less forms: no one English, but a variety. And the phonetician should study all the differences, but for all the foreign students of English a standard pronunciation is quite better.

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