phonetics

Phonetic  adalah satu ilmu dari linguistik mempelajari bunyi bahasa yang di produksi oleh manusia. dan bagaimana sesuatu bunyi yang dihasilkan  secara betul.
Untuk mengucapkan bahasa Inggris kita dapat mempelajari ilmu fonetik bahasa Inggris. Cara tersingkat adalah dengan kita membaca petunjuk phonetic symbol pada kamus. Sebenarnya setiap kamus standar telah memiliki informasi atau penjelasan yang memadai mengenai bagaimana kata-kata yang ada di dalamnya diucapkan. Biasanya dalam bab-bab yang membahas tentang pengucapan, penulis atau pengarang kamus telah menyediakan sebuah daftar simbol untuk membantu pelajar bahasa Inggris menghasilkan suara kata-kata bahasa Inggris yang termuat di dalam kamus itu. Simbol-simbol ini disebut the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). atau sederhananya disebut Phonetic Symbols.

Beberapa cabang ilmu phonetics

- Acoustic: The study of the physical property of the sounds themselves.

- Auditory: The study of the way listeners perceive these sounds.

- Articulatory: The study of how the vocal tract produces the sounds of language.

Berikut contoh phonetic symbols dalam bahasa Inggris

Consonants p pen, copy, happen b back, baby, job t tea, tight, button d day, ladder, odd k key, clock, school g get, giggle, ghost tʃ church, match, nature dʒ judge, age, soldier f fat, coffee, rough, photo v view, heavy, move θ thing, author, path ð this, other, smooth s soon, cease, sister z zero, music, roses, buzz ʃ ship, sure, national ʒ pleasure, vision h hot, whole, ahead m more, hammer, sum n nice, know, funny, sun ŋ ring, anger, thanks, sung l light, valley, feel r right, wrong, sorry, arrange j yet, use, beauty, few w wet, one, when, queen ʔ (glottal stop) department, football

Vowels ɪ kit, bid, hymn, minute e dress, bed, head, many æ trap, bad, cat ɒ lot, odd, wash ʌ strut, mud, love, blood ʊ foot, good, put iː fleece, sea, machine eɪ face, day, break aɪ price, high, try ɔɪ choice, boy uː goose, two, blue, group əʊ goat, show, no aʊ mouth, now ɪə near, here, weary eə square. fair, various ɑː start, father ɔː thought, law, north, war ʊə poor, jury, cure ɜː nurse, stir, learn, refer ə about, common, standard i happy, radiate. glorious u thank you, influence, situation n̩ suddenly, cotton l̩ middle, metal ˈ (stress mark)

Berikut ini contoh phonetic symbols dalam bahasa Inggris berikut.

Consonants p pen, copy, happen b back, baby, job t tea, tight, button d day, ladder, odd k key, clock, school g get, giggle, ghost tʃ church, match, nature dʒ judge, age, soldier f fat, coffee, rough, photo v view, heavy, move θ thing, author, path ð this, other, smooth s soon, cease, sister z zero, music, roses, buzz ʃ ship, sure, national ʒ pleasure, vision h hot, whole, ahead m more, hammer, sum n nice, know, funny, sun ŋ ring, anger, thanks, sung l light, valley, feel r right, wrong, sorry, arrange j yet, use, beauty, few w wet, one, when, queen ʔ (glottal stop) department, football

Vowels ɪ kit, bid, hymn, minute e dress, bed, head, many æ trap, bad, cat ɒ lot, odd, wash ʌ strut, mud, love, blood ʊ foot, good, put iː fleece, sea, machine eɪ face, day, break aɪ price, high, try ɔɪ choice, boy uː goose, two, blue, group əʊ goat, show, no aʊ mouth, now ɪə near, here, weary eə square. fair, various ɑː start, father ɔː thought, law, north, war ʊə poor, jury, cure ɜː nurse, stir, learn, refer ə about, common, standard i happy, radiate. glorious u thank you, influence, situation n̩ suddenly, cotton l̩ middle, metal ˈ (stress mark)