Look carefully at the following sentences : Well, Raheema was the woman to whom it happened. So it is highly unlikely that Usman is a carpenter. Furthermore, the crow is black. Therefore anyone in the room could have been the culprit. Many cohesive devices are used correctly here, However, it is not clear how the sequence makes sense (at least not from the piece of the discourse available here)...
Discourse is a linguistic unit composed of several sentences, that has a unified meaning – written or spoken. Discourse can be anything from a grunt or single expletive, through short conversations and scribbled notes right up to novels or a lengthy legal case. Discourse Analysis is the study of discourse, or language used by members of a speech community. Discourse Analysis looks at both...
The lips, tongue, velum and glottis can be positioned in different ways to produce different sound types. These various configurations are called the manners of articulation. Oral Vs Nasal Phones A basic distinction in manners of articulation is between oral and nasal phones. When the velum is raised, cutting off the airflow through the nasal passage, oral sounds are produced. Nasal sounds are...
PROPERTIES OF SOUNDS Glottal states The vocal folds may be positioned in a number of ways to produce different glottal states. Fig 1 – Glottal states The first two glottal states (shown in Fig 1) are commonly encountered in most of the world’s languages. The third describes the glottal state that underlies a common speech phenomenon Fourth illustrates one of a number of glottal states...
Sound is produced when air is set in motion. The speech production mechanism consists of: – an air supply provided by the lungs – a sound source that sets the air in motion in ways specifically relevant to speech production the larynx where a set of muscles called the vocal folds (or vocal cords) are located – a set of filters that modifies the sound in various ways organs above...
PHONETICS: THE SOUNDS OF LANGUAGE Phonetic transcription & the International Phonetic Alphabet Since the sixteenth century, efforts have been made to devise a universal system for transcribing the sounds of speech. The best known system the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) has been developing since 1888. This system developed by the International Phonetic Association (website: ) attempts...
This is a subfield of linguistics that is most commonly defined as the study of meanings of linguistics units such as words, phrases and sentences.
This is the study of discourse, or language used by members of a apecific speech community / communities. Discourse Analysis looks at both language form and function, and includes the study of both spoken interaction and written texts.
This is a subfiled of linguistics that studies the rules that govern how words in a sentence are arranged. It looks at how different words are categorized, how they are combined into clauses and how clauses are joined to form sentences.