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The English alphabet has 26 letters. Each letter has a lower and upper case form. The
letters A, E, I, O, U are vowels.
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
j
k
l
m
[ei]
[bi:]
[si:]
[di:]
[i:]
[ef]
[ i:]
[ei ]
[ai]
[ ei]
[kei]
[el]
[em]
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
n
o
p
q
r
s
t
u
v
w
x
y
z
[en]
[ou]
[pi:]
[kju:]
[a:]
[es]
[ti:]
[ju:]
[vi:]
[d blju:]
[eks]
[wai]
[zed] or [AmE zi:]
Acoustic Phonetics - a study of how speech sounds are transmitted: when sound
travels through the air from the speaker's mouth to the hearer's ear it does so in the
form of vibrations in the air;
Auditory Phonetics - a study of how speech sounds are perceived: looks at the
way in which the hearers brain decodes the sound waves back into the vowels
and consonants originally intended by the speaker.
The actual sound produced, such as a simple vowel or consonant sound is called phone.
Closely associated with Phonetics is another branch of Linguistics known as Phonology.
Phonology deals with the way speech sounds behave in particular languages or in
languages generally. This focuses on the way languages use differences between sounds