What are the main features of pronunciation ? Ravshanova Nargiza

What are the main features of pronunciation ?

Ravshanova Nargiza

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FEATURES OF PRONUNCIATION

FEATURES OF PRONUNCIATION

First of all, the concept of pronunciation comprises the segmental features of speech production or

phonemes which can be considered as the individual sounds of a language that differentiate one word from another. On the other hand, pronunciation involves suprasegmental features like accent, stress, intonation and how sounds change in connected speech. In the learning of a second or a foreign language, individuals not only need to know how to produce phonemes and segmental elements correctly, but ako master suprasegmental features in order to achieve an effective oral communication, As stated by Ur (2008), a learner may enunciate the sounds perfectly and still sound foreign because of unacceptable stress and intonation; in Oriental tone languages intonation often makes a difference to meaning. Particularly in English language, a change in word stress may occur according to the function the word has in the sentence, and thus a sound may change in the same word. For example, the word "record" as a noun is stressed in the first syllable and in the second when it refers to a verb, making a difference in the artia lation of vowel sounds

record / rekord record/nilord

Noun INFORMATION Verb (STORE INFORMATION

For this reason, it is very important for students, who are learning English as a Foreign Language, become aware of how segmental and suprasegmental features interact with each other in speech production, Next you can see a diagram which summarizes the main features of pronunciation:

Suprasegmental features - features of speech wich generally apply to groups of segments or phonemes

Stress - word stress

- sentence stress

Intonation

Phonemes - the different sounda within a language

- voiced

- unvoiced

- diphtongs

- monophtongs

- long

- short

Consonants

Vowels

Single vowels

Look at the following phonemic transcriptions of some words taken from the text and try to find out how they are written in English

• Look at the following phonemic transcriptions of some words taken from the text and try to find out how they are written in English
• l'inglis/
• /'længwidz/
• /'vaval/
• /'konsənənt/
• / fauni:m/
• /pra nansı'eifan/