It deals with Phonetics and Phonology and its role in English language learning. The presentation was conducted in Lincoln Corner Faisalabad (administered by US consulate), in order to familiarize the students from diverse disciplines with the usage of Phonetics and Phonology in their communication.

2. Incharge: Ms Kanza Umar Khan
LINCOLN CORNER FAISALABAD

3. Task 1:
• Pronounce the following words:
Accessory, accent
cat, ceiling, ancient
chair, chaos
• Commonly mispronounced words in
Pakistan:
Honor, photostat, platform

4. Why do these asymmetries and veriations occur,
is there any better way to understand the
pronunciation of such words?
• Another system is devised to understand the
pronunciation patterns, which is proved be
more appropriate than the actual spellings of a
word.
• accessory /ək s s(ə)ri/ˈ ɛ
• platform /platf m/ɔː
• cat /kat/

5. • This system of symbols (phonetic symbols)
provide better understandings about the
pronunciation and sound patterns of a
language
• These were produced by International
Phonetic Association (IPA).
• These symbols are standerdized and applicable
on more than 3000 languages of the world, all
the sounds can be expressed by this system.

7. America's early attemps has made the
spellings (sounds) more easy.
• American spellings
more closely relate to
the actual sound
patterns of words.
BrE Ame
Ageing Aging
Colour Color
Analyse Analyze
Honour Honor
Dialogue Dialog

8. American Contributions in Linguistics
(Phonetics & Phonology)
• The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) was founded in 1924 to
advance the scientific study of language. LSA plays a critical role in
supporting and disseminating linguistic scholarship both to professional
linguists and to the general public.
• Founded in 1977, the American Association for Applied Linguistics
(AAAL) is a professional organization of scholars worldwide who are
interested in and actively contribute to the multi-disciplinary field of
applied linguistics. AAAL members promote principled approaches to
language-related concerns, including language education, acquisition
and loss, bilingualism, discourse analysis, literacy, rhetoric and
stylistics, language for special purposes, psycholinguistics, second and
foreign language pedagogy, language assessment, and language policy
and planning. Members use a wide variety of theoretical frameworks
and methodological approaches to address a broad range of language-
related issues that affect individuals and society. The mission of AAAL
is to facilitate the advancement and dissemination of knowledge and
understanding regarding these language-related issues in order to
improve the lives of individuals and conditions in society.

9. Phonetics:
• The branch of linguistics that deals with the
sounds of speech and their production,
combination, description, and representation
by written symbols.
• The system of sounds of a particular language

10. Phonology:
• The branch of linguistics concerned with the study of
speech sounds with reference to their distribution and
patterning.
• Phonetics is the study of speech sounds; whereas
Phonology is the study of sound patterns.
• In other words, phonetics is concerned with
describing the speech sounds (the physical and
articulatory aspects) that occur in a language;
phonology focuses on the study of rules and
organization of sound units in a language.

11. Phonetics & its Branches:
• The field of phonetics is a multiple layered subject of
linguistics that focuses on speech. In the case of oral
languages there are three basic areas of study:
• Articulatory phonetics: the study of the production
of speech sounds by the articulatory and vocal tract
by the speaker
• Acoustic phonetics: the study of the physical
transmission of speech sounds from the speaker to the
listener
• Auditory phonetics: the study of the reception and
perception of speech sounds by the listener

12. • Phonetics will help you improve your English accent,
your listening skills, and your ability to communicate
effectively with others.
• IPA chart uses 44 of the IPA symbols,consists of 12
vowels, 24 consonants, and 8diphthongs
• It will help you to better understand English
pronunciation, and will also help you if you need to
look up the pronunciation of any English word in a
dictionary.

16. • Take the words “cat” /kæt/ and “key” /ki:/, for
instance.
• Both begin with a different consonant letter. “k” is
one of those consonants that are always pronounced
the same /k/; while “c” is one of the consonants that
have no set sound value. Its sound can change
depending on the word in which it is found.
• In the case of the word “cat” /kæt/, “c” is also
pronounced as /k/, but it is not pronounced the same
in the word “chair” /t eə(r)/.ʃ

18. • Monophthong e.g. [ u ]
• Diphthong e.g. [ au ] [ u ə]
• Triphthong e.g. [ au ə]