Every individual has a phisically different vocal tract, so

they will pronounce sounds differently.

Pronunciation depends on: • Environment

• The context

It describes the systems and patterns of speech sounds in

language. Is the study of how sounds are organized and

used in natural languages.

Is concern about the abstract aspects of sounds in language

rather than the physical articulation of it.

Is the smallest unit of speech sound that can be used to

make one word different from another word.

The contrastive property is a basic operational test to

determine the phonemes in a language.

If a sound is substitute by another and there is a change

of meaning, both sounds represent different phonemes.

Are the different versions of speech sounds produced

When there are a set of phones which of all of them are

versions of one phoneme, they are the allophones of

that phoeneme.

Are words that vary in one single sound. They are

written identically but they contrast in one phoneme

place in the same position.

When a group of words can be differentiated, each one

from the others, by changing one phoneme.

The phonotactics of a language have been

formed without obeying some contraints on the

sequence or position of English phoenemes.

They represent accidental gaps in the

vocabulary.

It is a unit of sound which must contain a vowel

sound. The number of times that you hear the

sound of a vowel is equal to the number of syllables

the word has.

The basic elements of a syllable are the onset and

the rhyme.

A consonant cluster is a group

of consonants which have no intervening vowel.

For example, /spl/ and /ts/ are consonant clusters

in the word splits.

Is the process of making one sound almost at the

same time as the next sound.

Involves:

• Assimilation: when two phonemes occur

in sequence and one is taken or copied by

the other. The sound becomes similiar or

identical to its neighbour sound.

• Elision: is the omission of syllables,

sounds segments or words.