Teaching Phonetics in English Language: The Speech System

The sounds in language have initial role in the speech system. They all differ and cannot be repeated. Sometimes the speakers differ in repeating the same sounds because of different factors depending on the speaker. Each system is language specific. Foreign language speakers find themselves in a chaos of sounds because of the nature of the “problem” i.e. the speaking or learning a foreign language. This chaos is supposed to be fixed by following certain rules or codes. In English, this chaos is resolved by studying phonemes, allophones and their distinctive and non-distinctive features.

Keywords – English, phonemes, allophones, chaos, system, language.