The ministry of higher and secondary special education of the republic of uzbekistan

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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.