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Excerpt from A Colloquial Sinhalese Reader: In Phonetic Transcription, With an Introduction on the Phonetics of Sinhalese
For the benefit of readers to whom phonetics is a new subject we would explain that phonetics is the science of pronunciation. The primary object of this science is to analyse the mechanism of speech with the greatest possible accuracy.
Phonetic theory is mainly-1 concerned with describing how speech-sounds are made, and with instructing language learners how to learn to produce foreign sounds. Phonetic transcription is an adjunct to the study of phonetics. It is a special kind of writing based on the principle one letter per phoneme. 1 Its object is to inform the reader what sequences of sounds are used in particular words and sentences.
This book is not primarily a treatise on the phonetics of Sinhalese, but we have thought that a useful purpose would be served by giving a certain amount of information on this subject in the Introduction.
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For the benefit of readers to whom phonetics is a new subject we would explain that phonetics is the science of pronunciation. The primary object of this science is to analyse the mechanism of speech with the greatest possible accuracy.
Phonetic theory is mainly-1 concerned with describing how speech-sounds are made, and with instructing language learners how to learn to produce foreign sounds. Phonetic transcription is an adjunct to the study of phonetics. It is a special kind of writing based on the principle one letter per phoneme. 1 Its object is to inform the reader what sequences of sounds are used in particular words and sentences.
This book is not primarily a treatise on the phonetics of Sinhalese, but we have thought that a useful purpose would be served by giving a certain amount of information on this subject in the Introduction.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
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Author
H. S. Perera
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780260762924
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.4 cm
Page Count - 68
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Contributors
Author
H. S. Perera
Published Date -
ISBN - 9781332114368
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.4 cm
Page Count - 70
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