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THE MINISTRY OF HIGHER AND SECONDARY
SPECIAL EDUCATION
OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN
Uzbekistan State World Languages University
M. T. Iriskulov
A.
S. Shatunova
A.
A. Muzikina
E N G L I S H
P H O N E T I C S
Recommended by the
Ministry of Higher and
Secondary Special Education
of the Republic of Uzbekistan as a manual
for students of higher English teacher
training educational
institutions
Tashkent - 2007
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Editors-in-chief
Bakiyeva G.
Michael Friel
Reviwed by:
R.A. Alimardanov
, Associate Professor of the
University of World Economy and Diplomacy
N.M. Kambarov
, Associate
Professor of
Uzbekistan State World Languages University
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INTRODUCTION
Intonation is the soul
of a language while
the pronunciation of
its sounds is its body.
R. Kingdon
Language can perform its function as the most important means of human intercourse
only as a language of sounds, because spoken words in all languages consist of speech
sounds, and speech without words is impossible. Letters only
serve to represent spoken
words in writing.
But words pronounced or written in isolation cannot express complete thoughts. More
or less complete thoughts can only be expressed in sentences consisting of several words
put together according to the grammar rules of the language and pronounced with the
proper intonation.
“English Phonetics” has been written especially for the first and second year students.
This program has been designed to help them overcome their particular pronunciation
problems in speaking English and to enable them to teach English pronunciation to others.
The manual is written in easy-to-understand terms and
is accompanied by cassette
tapes to help you to learn to pronounce British English sounds correctly. It consists of two
parts:
The first part deals with pure phonetics. It includes three chapters which are divided
into units. Each unit follows a specific format and contains the following sections:
1)
Hints
– a series of rules to help you remember when to produce the sound are
provided.
2)
Exercises
– this section has a variety of exercises
designed to give you
comprehensive practice with the sound as it occurs in words, common phrases
and sentences.
