What is a phonetic symbol?

Phonetic symbols are symbols for recording phonemes, and are also symbols for writing phonemes, which are used in linguistics. There are 2 vowels, 28 consonants and ***48 in the English phonetic alphabet.

the phonetic symbol was put forward by H. west p. Percy Jones. The principle of phonetic transcription is: a phonetic transcription consists of multiple phonemes, and the phonetic transcription consisting of two phonemes is called diphthongs, such as Chinese phonetic alphabet, English Webster's phonetic transcription and international phonetic transcription.

Function

The principle of "one symbol and one sound" is strictly stipulated in the International Phonetic Alphabet, that is, "one phoneme, one symbol and one phoneme" is an essential pronunciation method for reading English words well.

In languages that use pinyin schemes, the same letter is often pronounced in different words. For example, the "I" in English like and lit is phonetic with international phonetic symbols, which are [a? ] and [e], another example is: A of bān (class) and bāng (state) in Putonghua, which are respectively [a] and [e] in international phonetic symbols.

In addition, in different languages, the same sound has different spellings. For example, English sh, French ch, German sch, Polish sz, Czech s, are actually all international phonetic symbols [? ] sound. Extended information

Phoneme Phoneme

1. What is a phoneme? A phoneme is the smallest unit of speech.

2. Classification of phonemes: vowels and consonants.

3. Number of phonemes: ***48, 2 vowel phonemes and 28 consonant phonemes.

4. What is a phonetic symbol? The symbols that record phonemes are called phonetic symbols.

5. What is the International Phonetic Alphabet? The International Phonetic Alphabet is a phonetic symbol stipulated by the International Phonetic Association, which is used to record the voices of major languages in the world.

6. syllable opening:

a) consonant+vowel+consonant+e: name, bike, home, due, plane

b) consonant+vowel: he, go, hi, do, be, tree, three, hello

7. closed syllable. Cup, let, mad

b) vowels+consonants: it, is, of, in, on, up, out, ant

8. stressed syllables: syllables with particularly loud pronunciation in words.

9. Definition of Vowel and Consonant:

Vowel vibrates during pronunciation, and the exhaled airflow passes through the mouth unimpeded, so the formed voice is called vowel.

No matter whether the vocal cords vibrate or not, the exhaled airflow is hindered when it passes through the oral cavity or nasal cavity, so the formed voice is called consonant.

Consonants whose vocal cords do not vibrate during pronunciation are called unvoiced consonants.

The consonants that sound the vibration of vocal cords are called voiced consonants.

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