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Teaching the Five Ws About Rules of English Pronunciation: A Tutorial View for
English Learners (Episode I).
Bacem A. Essam[a],*
[a]
Abstract
INTRODUCTION
In Sociolinguistics, standard English denotes the
formal variety of English used as a communicative
norm throughout the English-speaking world. According
to Crystal (2003), the notion has become increasingly
1. STUDY OBJECTIVE
This study aims at simply teaching the basics of phonetics
and rules of pronunciation with compelling evidences
2. LITERATURE REVIEW
Rogers in his book The Sounds of Language: An
Introduction to Phonetics (2012) has viewed a very
scholarly phonetic outlook with characterization of the
English sounds: an effort ushered within the scope of
articulatory phonetics.
Recently, Hancock (2012) has exerted a very nice
effort in his course-book English Pronunciation in Use:
Intermediate Self-study and Classroom Use therein
many illustrations and exercises are provided after every
pair of related sounds (e.g., /b/ and /p/ ). The coursebook gives numerous color-coded examples but it lacks
the justification and elaboration: the utility that the
reader would use to conclude similar exemptions from
the rules.
Sylven has discussed phonetics and the pronunciation
of English with an overview of the sound system of
English, stress and intonation, as well as sociolinguistics
in relation to pronunciation in The Ins and Outs of
English Pronunciation: An Introduction to Phonetics
(2013). The printed version went hand in hand with
an interactive e-version of the book to provide a good
opportunity to listen to the entire book as read by native
speakers.
3. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK:
3.1 The Philosophy of Language Changes and
Progression
Not only old, Middle, Early Modern and Modern
English are the four norms of study and categorization.
A subdivision of written and spoken English of all these
periods would deliver specific characterization. Moreover,
within the very modern age, spoken varieties are too
numerous to be entirely traced. Linguistic changes are
evident within the same generation of a certain locale.
The pronounced change is too prolific to be confined
to a generation. Changes are pronounced in various age
groups, social classes, educational advancement and other
multidimensional causative factors.
Modern computational linguists have shaken the
patrimonial linguistic traditions. As neither linguists nor
anyone else can teach the body politic how to speak, how to
tolerate or abide by anything; the discourse of addressing
people must not be: [In the name of linguistics Say
and Say not; or Do and Dont]. It is unacceptable
anymore. Linguists and polyglot have to show more
flexibility because the same vocabulary and denotation,
which had been used within the first millennium cannot
be safeguarded. How many native English speakers avoid
the Shakespearean! It would not be Shakespeares fault;
Letter B:
This letter is always pronounced /b/ as in Bike /bak/,
Brad /brd/ and globe /glob/ where the /b/ sound
is normally heard. Sometime, this sound is not fully
heard:
() at the end of words especially when followed by
another word that begins with phonetically close sound
unless it were for emphatic purposes (e.g., bulb, A single
electric bulb dangled from the ceiling: the /b/ sound is
rarely heard)
The sound /b/ is always mute in the following
positions:
mb. () if the /b/ sound follows /m/ at the end
of a syllable or a word.
Examples are
bomb /bm, bm/ iamb /am/, dumb / dm/, jamb
/ dm /, lamb / lm /, limb /lm/, numb / nm/, plumb
/ plm/ succumb / skm / thumb / m / tomb / tum /
womb /wum/ and climb /klam/
() Every British // is pronounced // in AmE.
Accordingly, the symbol // is used to highlight this rule.
(e.g., yacht /jt/ meaning /BrE jt, AmE jt/)
() Adding a syntactic letter or a syllable doesnt reutter the mute letter.
Examples:
b omb /bm/: bombs /bmz/, bomb.er /bmr/,
bomb.ing /bm/
Letter C:
This letter is mostly pronounced /k/ as in Car /kr/
Category /ktgri/ reluctant /rlktnt/ physics/fzks/.
Exceptions are numerous. It is, alone and combining,
pronounced /s/, //, /t/, or muted.
(1) The sound /s/ is always produced when the letter
C is followed by /, i , e/ and some lowering schwas /
/. That is to say when the letter C is succeeded by /
i, e, y & ae/]. Moreover, when the word is Anglicized
from French, originally spelling in its core
(e.g, faade):
Examples are: eccentricity eccentricity /k
sntrsti, k sn-/
Please notice that /y/ and /j/ in the IPA chart represent
different versions for the same sound and so do // and /e/.
that is to transcribe yelling /yl/ or previously /jel/
c + i, e, y & ae /s/, C + i, e, y & ae /s/ and
/s/.
Gazillions of examples strike our minds:
accidence /ksdns/, capacitance /kpstns/,
circumference /skm(p)frns/, city/sti/, circle /
/b/ bank -- /d/ do + AmE /t/ better, pretty -- /d/ judge -- /f/ food -- /g/ gold -- /h/ hot -- /k/ class -- /l/ Long -- /l/ Level -- /m/ master -- /n/ no -// Sing, long-- /p/ put -- /r/ marry -- /R, r / chauffeur /ofR, -r/-- /s/ sit -- // shoe -- /t/ tank -- /t/ tree -- /t/ stroke, strike -- // think -//there -- /v/ love -- /w/wife -- /w/ when -- /y/ You -- /z/ zero, these // pleasure AME /t/twenty- artist -- /t/ artist- // hot, copy, body.
// bad-- /i/ need -- // win -- // father -- // all -- /u/ ooze -- // get -- // book-- // hot (BrE)-- // run-- // about-- // Bird -- /r/ Better-/a/ ice-- // ear-- /o/ below-- // boy -- /a/ now --// air -- /ar/ tire -- /ar/ flower-- /r/ employer
CONCLUSION
To conclude, the standard variety of English, after
the global use of English as L1 and L2, cannot be
standardized any more. This paper addresses the
phonological variants of English sounds with reference to
the Received Pronunciation of the British accent as well
as the North American accent. It descriptively analyzes
authentic data of spoken English. Throughout this episode,
the first two consonants are discussed in detail, enrolling
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to acknowledge my professor and redactor:
Dr Khaled El Gamry and EsraMoustafa for their help
and guidance. My hearties acknowledgement is, surely,
extended to my old friends: Abigail, Martha stone,
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