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Phonology is the study of sound systems in language. It examines the inventory of sounds in a language and the rules for how sounds interact. Phonology focuses on phonemes, which are abstract sound units that distinguish words. Phonemes can be realized differently depending on their environment. Phonetic transcription represents actual sounds, while phonemic transcription shows phonemes. Learning phonemic awareness, such as identifying and manipulating sounds in words, is an important pre-reading skill. Phonology explores phenomena like minimal pairs, complementary distribution, and phonological processes in languages.

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Phonology - Fuentes

Phonology is the study of sound systems in language. It examines the inventory of sounds in a language and the rules for how sounds interact. Phonology focuses on phonemes, which are abstract sound units that distinguish words. Phonemes can be realized differently depending on their environment. Phonetic transcription represents actual sounds, while phonemic transcription shows phonemes. Learning phonemic awareness, such as identifying and manipulating sounds in words, is an important pre-reading skill. Phonology explores phenomena like minimal pairs, complementary distribution, and phonological processes in languages.

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PHONOLOGY

ROCELLA J. FUENTES
MAED-ELE
English Language

26 letters and
it makes 44 sounds
/ch/

chair Christmas machine

Not one to one correspondents between the letter and the sounds.

Students need to learn sounds in a word.


WHAT IS PHONOLOGY?
one of the sub-fields of linguistics
the study of sound systems and abstract sounds units

Pragmatics

Semantics

Syntax
Morphology
Phonology
phonetics
PHONOLOGY IS…
The phonological system of language includes:

an inventory of sounds and their feature, and

rules which specify how sounds interact with each other.


PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS

RHYMING CONCEPT OF WORDs

SYLLABLES
PHONEMIC
AWARENESS
Phonemic awareness

Phonemic awareness has to do with sounds,


not letters.

is the ability to play with sounds in words


Four ways

ISOLATE SOUNDS SEGMENT


SOUNDS
hyperbole m-e-t-a-p-h-o-r

BLEND SOUNDS MANIPULATE


SOUNDS
illusion
s-i-m-i-l-e
allusion
Phonemic and phonological awareness
are essential pre-reading skills
PHONETICS VS. PHONOLOGY

Phonetics is the study of sounds in and of themselves.

Phonology is the way that a given an language treats.


WHAT IS PHONEME?
A basic unit of sound that is able to distinguish one word from another in
a given language.

This is DIFFERENT from a letter.

A phoneme is different from a letter.


A letter is a unit of writing
A phoneme is unit of speech
SPEECH SOUNDS VS. PHONEMES
Speech sounds are not bound to any given language

Phonemes are abstract


- A phoneme is actually a collection of speech sounds
- A phoneme manifests itself in different ways depending on its
environment.
PHONEMES ARE LIKE WEREWOLVES
(FROM DAVID PETERSON)

Imagine a guy named Tony.

We learn that Tony looks different in


different environments.
PHONEMES ARE LIKE WEREWOLVES
(FROM DAVID PETERSON)

In the environment of a full moon, In all other environments, Tony


Tony looks like a wolf. looks like a human.

Regardless of the environment, he’s always still Tony.

Note that you can predict abstract. Tony’s from based only the environment.
MINIMAL PAIRS

the best way to find phonemes in a language is to aware for minimal pairs
(words that differ in only one sound)
COMPLEMENTARY
DISTRIBUTION
Phoneme

Allophones
before elsewhere before elsewhere
nasal nasal
English Aspiration
EXPERIMENT TIME !

two

stew
Phonology is the scientific study of the grammar of speech sounds.

Every language has a different system for dividing and organizing speech
sounds into phonemes, and this is really useful knowledge to have for
learning to pronounce words correctly in your target language
PHONOLOGY EXERCISES
Minimal pairs
Direction: Find minimal pairs to illustrate the phonemics status in English of the following
phonemes:
References:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh-Zzu1G2Yw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCehaHj8rAE&list=PL40992C1F0FAEC7ED&index=4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McJldIFIpC8
http://phonics-phonology.blogspot.com/2014/02/difference-between-phonetics-and.html
https://www.thoughtco.com/phonology-definition-1691623
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JYahvKUvPU
https://www.sltinfo.com/phonological-processes/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiUhcy0yUrE

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