Course of speech

PHONETICS - the science of speech sounds; interest in this topic quite old: Sanskrit grammarian (Panini, 5th c. BC) – rules for interpreting the Vedic hymns

- Importance for foreign language teaching and learning; identifying and correcting speech problems (stuttering, aphasia);

-concerned with human sound-making, DESCRIPTION, CLASSIFICATION and TRANSCRIPTION of the speech sounds of a particular language (not all the lgs.)

PHONOLOGY - concerned with the range and function of sounds in specific languages. It examines some of the ways sounds are organized and altered in accordance with the rules of the English grammar.