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A major difficulty facing almost any foreign language learner is the achievement of acceptable pronunciation which marks his success in mastering the language. Many EFL learners master such aspects of language as syntax, semantics, morphology, and even pragmatics to the point of native-like competence, but fail to master phonology. This is partly because of the physiological constraints that make the pronunciation of a foreign or second language sound different from that of the native language of the speakers, and partly due to the lack of appropriate training in phonology courses. This book is designed to support EFL learners in achieving native-like pronunciation. Chapter one deals with the history of phonology and phonetics and provides a brief overview of the impact of philosophy and psychology on the emergence of phonology. Chapter two defines the notion of phoneme, describes IPA phonetic alphabet, and distinguishes between broad and narrow transcriptions. Next, chapters three and four provide an in-depth account of traditional and systematic articulatory phonetics respectively. After this, chapter five discusses the place of suprasegmentals in phonology followed by chapter si

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Author

Parviz Birjandi and Mohammad Ali Salmani-Nodoushan

Publisher

Zabankadeh Publications

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9789646117570

Category

nonfiction