英语语言学讲课.pptxVIP

1. Inroduction (1) Phonetics and phonology are very useful. With some phonetic knowledge we can give a much more precise description to speech sounds. And with some phonological knowledge we can become more aware of the functions of sounds in different languages. More importantly, phonetics and phonology have made the greatest contribution to “teaching” machines to “talk”.第1页/共38页第一页，共39页。 (2) Linguistics is only interested in speech sounds. Sounds made by a human being but not used in language are not considered as speech sound, e.g. coughing, vomitting, snoring.第2页/共38页第二页，共39页。 2. Phonetics