كتاب The Sounds of Language PDF وليام سبنسر : 2016م - 1443هـ The Sounds of Language Knowing a language includes knowing the sounds of that language • Phonetics is the study of speech sounds • We are able to segment a continuous stream of speech into distinct parts and recognize the parts in other words • Everyone who knows a language knows how to segment sentences into words and words into sounds Our linguistic knowledge allows us to ignore nonlinguistic differences in speech (such as individual pitch levels, rates of speed, coughs) • We are capable of making sounds that are not speech sounds in English but are in other languages – The click tsk that signals disapproval in English is a speech sound in languages such as Xhosa and Zulu where it is combined with other sounds just like t or k is in English .
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