1 explain the syllabic structure in english


actual phonological theories


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10 actual phonological theories
The four components of the phonetic structure of ant language (phonemic, syllabic, accentual and intonational) constitute its pronunciation. One of the things that everybody knows about languages is that they have different accents. Languages are pronounced differently by people from different geo­graphical places, from different social classes, of different ages and different educa­tional backgrounds. The word "accent" is often confused with dialect. We will use the word "dialect" to refer to a variety of a language, which is different from others not just in pronunciation but also in such matters as vocabulary, grammar and word-order. Differences of accent, on the other hand, are pronunciation differences only. Type of British English, most familiar as the accent used by most announcers and newsreaders on serious national and international BBC broadcasting channels, has for a long time been identified by the rather quaint name Received Pronunciation (usually abbrevi­ated to its initials, RP).
In talking about accents of English, the foreigner should be careful about the difference between England and Britain; there are many different accents in England, but the range becomes very much wider if the accents of Scotland, Wales and North­ern Ireland are taken into account. Within the accents of England, the distinction that is most frequently made by the majority of English people is between Northern and Southern. This is a very rough division, and there can be endless argument over where the boundaries lie, but most people on hearing a pronunciation typical of someone from Lancashire, Yorkshire or other counties further north would identify it as "Northern".

12 the system of consonant phonemes in English
the consonant system of the English language can be studied from phonological, phonetic, phonic, and phonemic viewpoints. An ESL/EFL language teacher would be hard pressed to distinguish among these disciplines of language study. As a matter of fact, so would many linguists, because the concepts are fluid and change with the times. Phonology, for instance, is "the study of sound patterns in languages, sometimes regarded as part of phonetics, sometimes as a separate study included in linguistics. Phonologists study phonemes (vowels and consonants) and prosody (stress, rhythm, and intonation) as subsystems of spoken language" (McArthur, 1992, p. 772). Until the 1960s, phonology's focus was on phonemics--the study of phonemes, viz. phonological units of language "that cannot be analyzed into smaller linear units and that in any particular language is realized in non-contrastive variants" (Oxford English Dictionary, 1989). Since then, phonology's focus has been on sound patterns and prosody. Phonetics is the "study and systematic classification of the sounds made in spoken utterance as they are produced by the organs of speech and as they register on the ear and on instruments" (Webster's Third New International Dictionary, 1966).
From the point of view of the EFL teacher, it is practical to view English consonants as speech sounds which are distinct from vowels, and are individually represented by a letter of the alphabet. Phonologists dichotomize between written consonants and spoken consonants, because the ones may differ from the others in sound. For example, whereas a d is unequivocally an alveolar plosive, such as in dent, a c may sound "hard" (/k/) as in card, candy, and color, and "soft" (/s/) as in city, cent, or Celt.


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