Reflection on the Course of Phonology
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Reflection on the Course of Phonology
2010级语言学班 李裕玲
It is meaningful for me to learn phonology this semester, since I
may continue to teach English in a high school or a college in
Guizhou province where the foreign language learning is relatively
undeveloped. In the whole, not only the students but also the
primary and secondary school teachers here are short of a systematic
knowledge on phonology, which is crucial in both listening and oral
English. Through the study of speech organs, I now know more
about the structure of the three cavities and the pronunciation rules
of the English language. therefore, I have a further understanding of
the IPA. It gives specific separate letters for each distinctive sound.
The letters are mainly from Roman alphabets, and the IPA can be
used to describe any language. I shall use them to describe the
dialect of my hometown and the language spoken by the minority in
the countryside of my county.
Phonology covers a vast area, for me this is only the
beginning. Some revelation I got when learning are:
Rule Ordering helps me master the explanation about the
pronunciation of plurality. There are the underlying form [z], the
epenthesis [i], and the devoicing [s]. I have known the order of these
rules, epenthesis comes first, and then the devoicing, finally the underlying form. Thus it shall help my students understand and
remember this phenomenon better, which maybe appear in the first
part of the College Entrance Examination.
I am especially attracted by the Optimality Theory. It is a
unique scientific way for the study of linguistics, syntax and
language acquisition as well. Interest is the best teacher. Trying to
understand as much as possible in the classroom is the first step. It is
by no means that I should gain so much in classes. I surely will
employ the theory learned from our Professor in the future study.
