2. Explain the theoretical and practical importance of phonetics. What types of phonetics do you know? What aspects of phonetics do we distinguish?

1. What does the term “language” denote?

2. Explain the theoretical and practical importance of phonetics.

3. What types of phonetics do you know?

4. What aspects of phonetics do we distinguish?

5. What is the difference between phonological aspect and phonetic aspect?

6. What does segmental phonology study?

1.What does the term “language” denote?

language, a system of conventional spoken, manual (signed), or written symbols by means of which human beings, as members of a social group and participants in its culture, express themselves.Language as “the most important means of human intercourse” exists in the material form of speech sounds. It cannot exist without being spoken. Oral speech is the primary process of communication by means of language. Written speech is secondary; it represents what exists in oral speech. In oral speech grammar and vocabulary as language aspects are expressed in sounds. The modification of words and their combination into sentences are first of all phonetic phenomena. We cannot change the grammatical form of a verb or a noun without changing the corresponding sounds. The communicative type of sentences can often be determined only by intonation. Hence the importance of the sound (phonetic) aspect of a language is obvious. To speak any language a person must know nearly all the 100% of its phonetics while only 50-90% of the grammar and 1% (1) of the vocabulary may be sufficient.

2.Explain the theoretical and practical importance of phonetics.

Phonetics can also be practical and theoretical. Practical phonetics studies the material form of phonetic phenomena in relation to meaning. There are branches of linguistics which are closely connected with phonetics because some phonetic information and facts are of great importance in their spheres of investigation.

3. What types of phonetics do you know?

The terms “phonetics” and “phonetic” come from the Greek word ϒωνη (fo:ne:) sound. The term “phonetics” may denote either the phonetic system of a concrete language or the phonetic science. Both the phonetic system of a language and the phonetic science are inseparably connected with each other but at the same time the one cannot be taken for the other. The phonetic system of a language is an objective reality while the phonetic science is a reflected reality. Phonetics as a science is a branch of linguistics. It is concerned with the study of the sound system of a language. Phonetics has a long history. It was known to the ancient Greeks and Hindus. But up to the 19^th century it was considered to be a part of grammar. As an independent linguistic science it began to develop in Russia and Western Europe in the 2^nd half of the 19^th century. Phonetics is the branch of linguistics that examines sounds in a language. Phonetics describes these sounds using the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). It has many letters with two or more sounds and many letters that are silent.

4.What aspects of phonetics do we distinguish?

Phonetics broadly deals with two aspects of human speech: production—the ways humans make sounds—and perception—the way speech is understood.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, or within each language, different patterns of sounds in different positions in words etc . oral speech grammar and vocabulary as language aspects are expressed in sounds. The modification of words and their combination into sentences are first of all phonetic phenomena.

5. What is the difference between phonological aspect and phonetic aspect?

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, or within each language, different patterns of sounds in different positions in words etc .

6. What does segmental phonology study?

Segmental phonology studies the way speech can be analyzed into discrete units, or segments, that constitute the basis of the sound system; and this, along with the analysis of the various phonetic features and processes which relate and differentiate these segments, is the subject-matter of this chapter. Segmental phonemes are similar, slightly different sounds within a language. An example of segmental phonemes are the sounds of "a," "e," "i," "o," and "u." noun. 9.