English Phonetics – an introduction
Posted by Marcus Ward on April 19, 2011The English AlphabetThe English alphabet has 26 letters. Each letter has a lower and upper case form. The letters A, E, I, O, U are vowels.ABCDEFGHIJKLMabcdefghijklm[ei][bi:][si:][di:][i:][ef][i:][ei][ai][ei][kei][el][em]NOPQRSTUVWXYZnopqrstuvwxyz[en][ou][pi:][kju:][a:][es][ti:][ju:][vi:][dblju:][eks][wai][zed] or [AmE zi:]Phonetics and PhonologyPhonetics (from the Greek word phone = sound/voice) is a fundamental branch of Linguistics and itself has three different aspects:Articulatory Phonetics – describes how vowels [...]