WHAT IS
LANGUAGE?
Language is
the human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems
of communication,
and a language is any specific example of such a system.
The scientific study of language is called linguistics. Estimates
of the number of languages in the world vary between 6,000 and 7,000.
However, any precise estimate depends on a partly arbitrary
distinction between languages
and dialects. Natural languages are spoken or signed,
but any language can be encoded into
secondary media using auditory, visual, or tactile stimuli, for
example, in graphic writing, braile,
or whistling.
This is because human language is modality-independent. When used as
a general concept, "language" may refer to
the cognitive ability to learn and use systems of complex
communication, or to describe the set of rules that makes up these
systems, or the set of utterances that can be produced from those
rules. All languages rely on the process of semiosis to
relate sigs with particular
meanings. Oral and sign languages contain
a phonological system
that governs how symbols are used to form sequences known as words
or morphemes,
and a syntatic system
that governs how words and morphemes are
combined to form phrases and utterances.
Which are the branches of Phonetics?
Phonetics
has three branches:
1) Acoustic
Phonetics studies the physical properties of sounds made by the
vocal tract. It looks at the air wave frequencies of which sounds
consist. Computer programs are used to transform the sound waves to
what is known as spectrum. The outputs of these programs which
measure and record speech sounds are recognized as sound spectograms
2)
Auditory phonetics studies how the human ear perceives sounds
and how the human brain recognizes and interprets them as distinctive
units.
3)
Articulatory phonetics is the study of the production of
sounds are by the vocal tract. it looks at the place and manner of
articulating apeech sounds. It also explains how sounds can be
combined together to form words. Articulatory phonetics is the main
focus of this book. When thinking of articulatory phonetis, it will
always be helpful to think of anatomical features of the vocal tract.
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