Phonetics
Generally, Phonetics refers to the study of sound production of human speech – its articulatory and acoustic property of the human production of sound that intends to use in the process of communication. In relation to the object of study, the closest branch of Linguistics is Phonology which deals with the sound patterns, articulatory gestures and perceptual representation.
In Applied Linguistics, Phonetics is considered to be one of the major focuses of the study since aberration in language occurs in studying the Second Language (SL).
As previously discussed, mother tongue is learned without any effort and the mind is conditioned to learn the First Language (FL) even at the time of the infant’s conception. Learning another language will then be a challenge for both adults and young ones alike. Accent, syllabification, stresses, emphasis and other elocution factors of the mother tongue influences the study of SL and therefore needs to be corrected at first instance in learning and re-learning the SL.
Reviewing Phonetics in Applied Linguistics aims to correct the FL influences and strengthen the communication skills of the language learner.
In the Philippine setting, vowel sounds are produced in five ways (i.e. [a, e, i, o, u]) and there are consonants that are interchanged in production - some of these are [s] vs. [z], [p] vs. [f], [b] vs. [v], etc.
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