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Summary of English Phonology Lesson.

1. Phonetics : is the study of sound production by human organs of speech


in any human language.It means that if someone pronounce a sound,for
example / / the articulation is the same in every language.
2. Phonemics : is the study of sound pattern in a specific/particular/certain
language.It means that the sound pattern in English for example like
allophone,is not the same as in Bahasa Indonesia.
3. Letter : is the symbol of written language which refers to spelling.
For example,the spelling of the word book is b o o k meanwhile
the sound is /b u k/.
4. Phoneme : is the smallest distinctive unit of language,for example in the
words pan and pen,the phonemes are /p/,/ /,/ /, /n / and the distinctive
unit is / / and /e/.s that
5. Allophone : is the variant of phoneme that in complementary
distribution.For
example
:
the
allophone
of
phonemes
/p/,/t/,/k/aspirated
and unaspirated.
6. Pitch : is the acoustic result of the speed of the vocal cords in the voiced
parts of utterance.
Stress : is the degree of loudness given to some syllables in relation to
others.
Intonation : is the rhyme of speech when someone utters the utterances.
Juncture : is a significant intonation pattern marking the joining of one
Phrase,or clause with another or with sillence.

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