The Sounds Patterns of Language.

 THE SOUNDS PATTERNS OF LANGUAGE


I. Phonology:
 Phonology is the study of system and patterns of speech sounds in a language. It more focus on the abstract or mental aspect of the sounds of a language than considerate the actual physical articulation of speech sounds.

II. Phonemes:
 Phonemes are the minimal units of the phonetic system used to structure and distinguish the sound shells of meaningful units of the language. Another property of phoneme is that it function contrastively. For example, the words fat and vat have the phoneme /f/ and /v/.  These are the only basis of the contrast in meaning between the two words above. This proof that if a words has any change in meaning when a sound is changed, it means the changed sound is a distinct phoneme. 

III. Phones and Allophones:
 Phones are the different versions of sound type of phonemes. Regularly created in speech (in the mouth). When a set of phones are the version of one single phoneme, it named Allphones. These concepts are used to list down the differences of a phoneme which is produced in the speaking process. It include the differences in place of articulation, manner of articulation and more.
 
IV. Phonotactics:
 Phonotactics are a form of rule when combining phonemes. It define permissible of syllable structures, consonant clusters and vowel sequences by mean of phonatactic constraints.

V. Syllables:
 A syllable must contain a vowel, vowel-loke sound or diphthongs. The most common type of syllable has a consonant followed by a vowel or (CV). The basic element of a syllable is  a onset (one or more consonants) followed by a rhyme (a vowel (nucleus) and additional consonant(s) (coda)).
 A word has an onset and nucleus, but no coda is called an open syllable. In contrast, if a word has a coda, but no onset, it is called closed syllable.

VI. Coarticulation Effects:
 The process of creating a sound almost at the same time as the next sound is called coarticulation.
*Some method to shorten a word in speaking that contains large consonant clusters.
-Assimilation: This process involve some aspect of a segment is taken or "copied" by the other when two segment occur in sequence.
-Nasalization: happen when the anticipation of the final nasal consonant occur such as in words like pin and pan in speaking make it easier to nasalize the vowel sounds.
-Elision: is the process of not pronouncing a sound segment that might present when the word is pronounced carefully and slowly in an isolation. 







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