北鼎教育---2015北外考研英语专业英语语言学chapter two.docVIP

Chapter Two Speech Sounds 学习目的： 理解并对比语音学和音系学的研究对象、目的和基本方法； 能够对英语语音进行描写； 了解英语语音的发音过程和规则； 理解各种超音段特征的作用 本章重点： 对英语的辅音、元音进行分类和描写； 协同发音； 音位和音位变体； 英语中常见的音系规则； 区别性特征； 超音段特征 As human beings, we are capable of making all kinds of sounds, but only some of these sounds have become units in the language system. What kinds of unusual sounds can you make? Think of the performance in some comic dialogues. Phonetics phonology Phonetics studies how speech sounds are produced, transmitted, and perceived. Articulatory Phonetics is the study of the production of speech sounds. Acoustic Phonetics is the s