12-+Phonetics+&+Phonology

**PHONETICS & PHONOLOGY**

One of the duties of the English language teachers is trying to speak to children with a good pronunciation, so as to be better understood and to be an example of a good speaking way. A good pronunciation helps also to provide children an appealing Public Speech.

**__WHAT´S PHONETICS? __**

Phonetics is a discipline of linguistics that focuses on the study of the sounds used in speech.Phonetics is not concerned with the meaning of these sounds, the order in which they are placed, or any other factor outside of how they are produced and heard, and their various properties. Phonetics is closely related to phonology, which focuses on how sounds are understood in a given language, and semiotics, which looks at symbols themselves.

__PHONETICS BRANCHES? __

There are three major subfields of phonetics, each of which focuses on a particular aspect of the sounds used in speech and communication.

Auditory phonetics looks at how people perceive the sounds they hear, acoustic phonetics looks at the waves involved in speech sounds and how they are interpreted by the human ear, and articulatory phonetics looks at how sounds are produced by the human vocal apparatus. Articulatory phonetics is where the majority of people begin their study of phonetics, and it has uses for many people outside of the field of linguistics. These include speech therapists, computer speech synthesizers, and people who are simply interested in learning how they make the sounds they do.

__SPECIALISTS IN PHONETICS? __

A linguist who specializes in phonetics is known as a phonetician. **__WHAT´S PHONOLOGY? __**

Phonology is the study of sounds and speech patterns in language. The root "phone" in phonology relates to sounds and originates from the Greek word phonema which means sound. Phonology seeks to discern the sounds made in all human languages. The identification of universal and non-universal qualities of sounds is a crucial component in phonology as all languages use syllables and forms of vowels and consonants.

__ANY SPECIALISTS IN PHONETICS? __

A linguist who specializes in phonology is known as a phonologist.


 * __PHONETICS & PHONOLOGY COMPARISON: __ **


 * **PHONETICS ** || **PHONOLOGY ** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">It is the basis for phonological analysis. ** || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008080; display: block; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">It is the basis for further work in morphology, syntax, discourse, and orthography design. ** ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; display: block; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Analyzes the production of all human speech sounds, regardless of language. ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Analyzes the sound patterns of a particular language by **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Determining which phonetic sounds are significant, and **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Explaining how these sounds are interpreted by the native speaker. ** ||

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<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**//Alphatree://** T <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">his is an example of resource that teachers can use due to practice the alphabet and the different sounds that each letter may have.

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<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">//**Domiphon:**// <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">This is an example of resource teachers can use to allow children to practice matching rhyming sounds (beginning & ending consonants). //** Children´s strategies: **// <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">This document includes one teachers' experiences when children write, they try to use the sounds in words to figure out their spelling (children's spelling strategies).

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">//Here you will find some pages I found on the Internet, they contain information, games and other useful resources due to improve your skills in phonetics.//

[] <span style="color: #23c507; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**This site contains games for kids to practice phonetics, it can be useful for teachers to work on them and also develop the ITC´s management.**

[] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #23c507; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12px;">**By entering this site kids can read or listen to stories and identify words that correctly complete sentences and also play different games (filling letters, words...)** **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12px;">it is available in English and Spanish. **

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 * <span style="color: #23c507; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12px;">This web contents some practical information about the stressed pattern in English language. **

<span style="color: #c50764; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">**__VIDEO: IMPROVING YOUR PHONETIC SKILLS__**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Here is a video tutorial to help you to learn all the English sounds, it´s always better to see (to hear in this case) something in practice than written. media type="youtube" key="JF6QVxJoiKo" width="339" height="280" align="center"

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">**__//Other interesting videos://__**

[] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**(Phonetic learning for Spanish students)** [] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**(Confusing homophones: to, too & two)**

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">**__CLASS GIVEN RESOURCES:__** //

** //TEACHERS' AND STUDENTS' SECTION:// ** Use this link to practice on your own at home:



Adrian Underhill also offers you alternative techniques:


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 * JOLLY PHONIC RESOURCES. SOUNDING WRITTEN WORDS:VOWELS
 * JOLLY PHONICS SUGGESTED GAMES

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