Essays on Phonetics

If you are learning English because you intend to travel in England and wish to be understood there, do not try to speak English perfectly because if you do, no one will understand you. Though there is no such thing as perfectly correct English, there is presentable English which we call ‘Good English’, but in…

“The Whitsun Weddings” is Larkin’s longest poem and describes the protagonists long, leisurely train journey from Hull to London. Larkin wanted the poem “to construct a verbal device that would preserve an experience indefinitely by reproducing it in whoever read the poem.1” He uses a certain poetic form to share the experience of his journey…

How have spoken sounds acquired meaning? What is the nature of the connection between the sounds and what they are taken to represent? Language in a communication system has undergone a number of evolutionary changes. Language can be further explained by saying that it is a collection of sounds, sounds that have acquired meaning over…

Phonetics is a scientific discipline that examines the sounds made by humans when speaking. It explains the mechanics and acoustic qualities of sounds and provides ways to classify them. Phonetics is comprised of three major branches. Articulatory phonetics: Studies the nature and limits of the human ability to produce speech sounds and describes the way…