Pronunciation, rhythm, stress

Phonology is not the study of phonemes and articulation only.
Phonology is a successful combination of intonation studies that includes such concepts as pronunciation, rhythm, stress, key, tones, and pitches.
The purpose of this presentation is to explain why phonology is important in human communication. It is not enough to give definitions and examples. It is required to make people participate in phonology and phonetics studies and understand the importance of each concept in this field, which are Pronunciation, Rhythm, Stress and Prominence, Intonation, Tones, Key, Pitch. Native speakers and ESL speakers demonstrate different ways of speaking, and the task is to be prepared for changes and accept them in a proper way. This discourse analysis is devoted to phonology and its place in human life.Pronunciation

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  “Good morning” – “Good evening”
  
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  Where do you hear sound “b”?
  
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  How many sounds in words “plug”, “pie”, and “heat”.
  

Pronunciation is the ability to segment different sounds of language into certain discrete items, which are also known as phonemes.
It helps to determine the meaning of words or may confuse speakers and promote poor understanding of each other. People should learn how to deal with jawbreakers in order not to tie their tongues in knots.
Several simple activities to understand how important pronunciation is. In phrases “Good morning” – “Good evening”, there are no letter “b”. Still, you can hear it while pronouncing one of them. Which one? “Good morning” – when “d” precedes a bilabial “m”.
The number of letters is not always equal the number of sounds. Check this out pronouncing such words as “plug”, “pie”, and “heat” and count the number of sounds. Plug – 4 letters and 4 sounds; Pie – 3 letters and 4 sounds; Heat – 4 letters and 3 sounds.
Assimilation is the process by which a sound changes to become more similar – or even identical – to a neighbouring sound.
Elision is the process by which a sound ‘goes missing’: it isn’t pronounced, although it would be pronounced in a very slow, careful style of speech.
Common types of assimilation
/t/ => /p/ before bilabials /p/, /b/ and /m/ night porter get bored hot meal
/t/ => /k/ before velars /k/ and /g/ white cat let go
/d/ => /b/ before bilabials /p/, /b/ and /m/ bad press red bag wide margin
Coalescence

Assimilation due to differences of voicing

/b/ => /p/ sub-plot /d/ => /t/ bad time /g/ => /k/ eggshell /z/ => /s/ as cold
/ð/ => /θ/ with salt /dʒ/ =>/tʃ/ large-scale
Assimilation of suffixes –s and –ed

Elision is the process by which sounds disappear – or, more accurately, fail to appear – in fluent speech where they might be expected to appear when a word is spoken in isolation, or in slow, careful speech.

E lision of schwa
The weak vowel /ə/ (schwa) is unstable and frequently elided:

Elision in clusters Elision often affects consonant clusters. In particular, /t/ or /d/ in the middle of a cluster tend to be elided:

Elision in weak forms Elision is a feature of many weak forms, such as:

had / would /d/ I’d rather not will /l/ that’ll do
A ssimilation and elision can combine to produce pronunciations which are significantly different from what would be expected on the basis of written forms. Here, for example, are three possible pronunciations of bed and breakfast, the first fairly slow and careful, the second faster and the third as it might be said in the middle of an utterance in a relaxed informal conversation:
Summary
Assimilation is a process by which a sound changes to become more similar – or even identical – to a neighbouring sound. In principle, this process can operate backwards to affect a preceding sound or forwards to affect a following sound. The first type (regressive assimilation) is more widespread in English, but the second type (progressive assimilation) operates in connection with the –s and –ed suffixes.
Elision is a process by which a sound is missed out, in a context where it would appear in slow, careful speech.

Below are some messages that have been misunderstood by somebody’s smart phone.

The smart phone has sometimes misunderstood the tenses in the sentences.
Listen to the tracks and then, if necessary, put the verbs into the right tense and rectify any incorrect words.
1. She didn’t know what the house look like.
2. I when round tether front of the school.
3. We follow dinner taxi.
4. She pass Dundee on the way to Aberdeen.
5. He ass Tabitha where the station was.
6. We manage to finder.
7. She look Tim in the eye and then left.
8. We talk to everyone who lived with inner 4 mile radius of the house.
9. He look table to walk.
10. It look good.
11. She fix taps and other things when she work forum.
12. They when to an ark gallery.
13. We solder rakar.
14. She reach the house a tate tin the morning.
15. He welcome them mall to the meeting.

Below are some messages that have been misunderstood by somebody’s smart phone.

Put the verbs into the right tense and rectify any incorrect nouns.
1. She did not do wit.
2. We pay dim a lot of money.
3. We should watcher carefully.
4. Ya torture self how to play piano.
5. She walk to the supermarket but tooker bus home.
6. We laugh tat Tim.
7. We loss Tim mat the concert.
8. What shore name?
9. I dig the painting.
10. Where diddy go?
11. She try to take the to wait bus.
12. He talk to the mall evening.
13. It was nice to me chew.
14. He sorry tall from the car.
15. She look taddit with outer glasses.