Can you speak correctly? Sit and sip Sue’s tea. Her heart got hurt. Bill fired, Jill hired. Jeer at the year liar. Stop hopping to top. Quash quakes quickly! Deer fear mere tears. Bob Hope taps the cup.Kent sent a cent to Ant. Fox falls in love in fall. 2021/1/13 1 chapter2SpeechSounds语言学 Goat road a boat to vote. Don, t worry, but hurry, Jerry. Hannah’ s llama has a hammer. She’s a big sheep on Peter’s ship. The batter’s bitter butter’s better. The suite suits the sweet Sweeneys. Fred Ford can’t afford four Fords. Thin metal tins think tinkers kings. The busy bees buzz at the big bear. Puffins in the coffin munch muffins. 棺木里的海鹦大嚼松饼。 2021/1/13 2 chapter2SpeechSounds语言学 Introduction The speech and writing are two media or substance used by natural language as vehicles for communication Modern linguistics regards the spoken form of language as primary, but not the written form. Linguists are not interested in all sounds; they are concerned with only those sounds that are produced by the human speech organs. 2021/1/13 3 chapter2SpeechSounds语言学 1. Phonetics Speech production and perception Speech organs (vocal organs) Phonetic transcription English speech sounds 2021/1/13 4 chapter2SpeechSounds语言学 1. Phonetics Phonetics studies how speech sounds are produced, transmitted, and perceived. It’s concerned with all the sounds that occur in the world’s languages. 2021/1/13 5 chapter2SpeechSounds语言学 Speech production and perception Speech Speech Production Perception (speaker A) (speaker B) A three-step process of speech sounds 2021/1/13 6 chapter2SpeechSounds语言学 From the speaker’s point of view: how a