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Analysis: Student Name: Michenia Gissell Amador Teacher's Name: Darwin Oyuela Assignment Analysis Date April 17, 2021

This document analyzes the importance of phonology in language learning. It discusses how phonology is the study of a language's sound patterns and how sounds are used to distinguish words. It also explains that proper pronunciation is key to effective communication and comprehension. The document outlines some of the basic units of sound in English, such as morphemes, allomorphs, phonemes, and phones, and how their pronunciation can vary based on context. It emphasizes that understanding a language's phonology helps learners identify sounds and pronounce words correctly.

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Analysis: Student Name: Michenia Gissell Amador Teacher's Name: Darwin Oyuela Assignment Analysis Date April 17, 2021

This document analyzes the importance of phonology in language learning. It discusses how phonology is the study of a language's sound patterns and how sounds are used to distinguish words. It also explains that proper pronunciation is key to effective communication and comprehension. The document outlines some of the basic units of sound in English, such as morphemes, allomorphs, phonemes, and phones, and how their pronunciation can vary based on context. It emphasizes that understanding a language's phonology helps learners identify sounds and pronounce words correctly.

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Student name: Michenia Gissell Amador

Teacher’s name: Darwin Oyuela


Assignment; Analysis
Date April 17th ,2021

Analysis

There are many different languages around the world, and each one has its
unique sounds and complexities. To learn a language successfully, it is crucial to
understand each element that composes it, and most of the time the hardest part of
a language is pronunciation. That's why we must understand language patterns,
which are made up of different sounds or phonemes that indicate the correct
pronunciation of a word in a language, in Linguist known as Phonology.
Phonology is referred to as the study of speech sounds, phonology also refers to
the linguistic knowledge that the speakers have about the sounds of their language
and to the description of that knowledge that linguists try to produce. Phonology
is also about knowing which are the sounds of our language and which are foreign
sounds.

Proper pronunciation is the key to mastering a language since it would lead


you to effective communication, your message would be delivered correctly and
at the same time, you would comprehend better as well. In English, the parts of
words that are pronounced in a word are called: Morphemes. Some of them are
pronounced differently depending on their context. For example, the pronunciation
of Plurals in English is divided into voiced alveolar fricative, voiceless alveolar
fricative, and the irregular plurals and the past tense regular verbs, the third person
in verbs by adding -s, or -es. Also, there are allomorphs, which are considered
variants of a morpheme and in which they are written differently in the plural form.
Their pronunciation is different based on the morphophonemic rules, which are the
ones that define and indicate the correct pronunciation of words in their plural form
or in any other grammar rule that changes the pronunciation of the different
morphemes that make up a word. Now, minimal pair helps us differentiate between
words that seem to be similar.
Words are considered the basis of possibly the most important factor when
learning a new language. To make yourself understood, it is essential to know a
wide range of words. That where mental lexicon kicks in the Mental Lexicon
essentially contains all the items a person knows and needs to communicate. Helps
people to identify the different phonemes that make up a word and the sound that
should be given to each of them, and guide him to give the correct pronunciation
to the word. It is difficult how to find phonemes because in some cases there only
vowels that differ in words, for example: beat and bit. When it occurs is because
there is a minimal pairs form where two different words differ in one sound in the
same position. The minimal pair words have eleven vowel phonemes and three
diphthongal vowel phonemes and the particular realization or pronunciation of a
phoneme is called a Phone and the aggregation of phones to the same phoneme is
called: allophones. Phonemes and phones are composed of phonetic features such
as voiced, nasal, labial, and continuant whose presence is indicated by the signs of
plus and minus.

In conclusion Phonology deals with sound structure in individual


languages: the way distinctions in sound are used to distinguish linguistic
elements, and how the sound structure of the same element varies as a function of
the other sounds in its context.

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