English Grammar Notes #1:
PHONETICS
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| English is
fundamentally dependant on its phonetics. That means, phonetic sounds play an important role in determining the
morphologic form of the sentence elements, and even the meaning of the words. In addition, as grammar branch
phonetics helps pronouncing English words correctly, and the foreign one as well. The globalization of our world comes with increased information exchange form one language to another. Because English is the dominant international language, foreign names need to be translated into English phonetic sounds. Pronouncing foreign names appropriately is a matter of consideration, respect, and it shows good knowledge/control of phonetics, and of grammar. Phonetics is a true grammatical instrument. In LSEG there are presented few instances when phonetics is the only method we could employ to ensure correct grammatical use. In addition to phonetic sounds, phonetics handles the "accent" of the words: the accent is again used as a very important grammatical instrument. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ATTENTION These Grammar Notes are not sufficient to understand the topics presented. For accurate and detailed information we recommend Logically Structured English Grammar book. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The English alphabet contains 26 letters: they are pronounced as 36 "basic sounds", and 47 "phonetic sounds" (a phonetic sound may group few basic sounds). In order to use English appropriately, ESL students and native speakers as well need to know the "phonetic alphabet". "Phonetic symbols" correspond to the basic phonetic sounds, and they are always written between square brackets. For example, the phonetic sound [e] is the letter "e" from: "ten", "seven", "error", "lemon". | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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