Wednesday, December 17, 2008


Phonetics is a branch of linguistics which is interested in the study of the physical speech sounds used in speech. It does not focus on the meanings of words. Because of poor English pronunciation, phonetic alphabet is used. It has letters which are counterparts of the sounds in English. English words are not read as they are written so phonetic alphabet is important to articulate and spell the words properly. All around the world the letters of this alphabet are vocalized same so people can understand the pronunciations of the words. In fact it is easy for Turkish people to be accustomed to this special alphabet. Because the letters of it and the pronunciation of the letters are generally same with our national alphabet for example we pronounce ‘keep’ as /kı:p/ . We use ‘e’ sound in Turkish as ‘İ’ as the same as phonetic alphabet. We can use this opportunity only when we know the correct pronunciation of the words.

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