Topic outline
Topic 1
This first lesson will address the scope of both phonetics and phonology.
Topic 2
This second lesson will look at the inconsistency of English spelling, amongst a whole host of other crucial points of immediate relevance
Topic 3
This third lesson will dwell upon the speech-producing apparatus various compoenents.
Topic 4
This current lesson will consider the various defining traits of the vowels and consonants the English sound inventory is made up of.
Topic 5
The present lesson will furnish the students with as ample insight as space permits about the trappings of the so-called received pronunciation accent.
Dr Djalal Mansour's Phonetics 06th Lesson
This sixth lesson will address some of the most commonly used parameters in accordance with which English contoids have been described, defined and classified into easily recognizable sets and sub-sets.
Topic 7
This lesson completes the story partially told by the previous one as it provides more pararmeters which together with the foregoing ones provide us with the fullest, most reliable description there is about the various trapping of all the the consonant segments the English sound inventory possesses.
Topic 8
In this lesson you will be taken through a sufficiently insightfully informative journey through the various defining traits of English monophthongs, or as they are alternatively labelled 'pure vowels'.
Topic 9
In this last lesson of the first term, you will be provided with an extensive account about the many and varied trappings of the two remaining classes of English vocalic segments. The discussion, however, centers more pivotally around vowel glides with triphthongs only touched upon for reasons that you will be familiar with as you finish reading the lesson in its entirety.