The English Speech Sounds 主讲:梁慧The importance of phonetic study 1)Phoneticsisthescienceofspeechsounds.Itdealswiththe soundsystemofalanguage.Alanguageconsistsofthreeimportant elements,namely,speechsounds,vocabularyandgrammar.Speech soundisthematerialformonwhichwordandgrammarrelyfor existence.Divorcedfromspeechsound,wordandgrammararenon- existent.Sothefirststepinstudyinganyspokenlanguageisto determinethephonemes.(Basicsounds) 2)Asameansofcommunicationbywordofmouth,languageis usedinoralspeechandinr