Phonetics■Phoneticsisthescienceofspeechsounds
Itdealswiththesoundsystemofalanguage
Alanguageconsistsofthreeimportantelements,namely,speechsound,vocabularyandgrammar
Speechsoundisthematerialformonwhichwordandgrammarrelyforexistence
Englishphoneticscoversthearticulation,classificationandcombinationoftheEnglishspeechsounds
Italsodealswiththelawsoftheirchanges,therulesofstressesandtheintonationinEnglishspeech
■Tohavegoodpronunciationmeans(1)topronouncecorrectlyallthespeechsoundsofthelanguageandallthecombinationsintheirproperordernotonlyinisolatedwords,butalsoinsentences(2)topronouncesentencesfluentlyatthespeedrequiredbythesituation,withcorrectstresses,linkingofsounds,rhythm,pausesandintonation
■StandardEnglishpronunciationEnglishisalanguagewhichismostwidelyusedintheworld
Itspronunciationvaries