Unit 2 The sounds of English
Review
What are the major defining features that natural languages possess?
Major contents
3.1 Linguistics and its branches 3.2 Vowels and consonants 3.3 Phones, phonemes, and allophones 3.4 Phonological rules 3.5 English syllables 3.6 Stress, tone, and intonation
Phoneme 音位
the minimal unit in the sound system of a language. With phonemes, we establish the patterns of organization within the infinitely large number of sounds. Each language can be shown to operate with a relatively small number of phonemes (15-80). No two languages have the same phonemic system.
linguistics, etc. applied linguistics:
language testing, stylistics, discourse analysis, text linguistics, computation linguistics, etc.
Phonetics vs. phonology