Components of the phonetic structure of English.

Components of the phonetic structure of English.

1. The allophones in various combinations of the English language segmental phonemes.

2. The syllabic structure of the English language in phrases and sentences.

3. The accentual structure of the English language phonetic system. 

 4. The intonation structure of sentences in phonetic system of the English language.

The sound matter is realized in the form of speech sounds, syllables, stress and intonation. The complex combination of the phonetic units constitutes the components of the phonetic structure. When these units are used in the phonological sense, i.e. as distinctive units they are called phonemes, syllabemes, accentemes, (word-accenteme, syntagm-accenteme, phrase accenteme) and intonemes. The complex combination of all these phonological units constitutes the components of the structure of language. The components of the sound matter of language manifest themselves in the components of its phonetic system. Each component of the phonetic system of a language is, in its turn, systemic in character.

Languages may differ from one another both in syllable formation and syllable division. Differences in syllable formation involve differences in the capacity of speech sound to form syllables (to be syllabic) in different position. For instance, the consonant [m] is syllabic in the English word “rhythm”. Differences in syllable division involve differences in the position of syllable division, or the syllable boundary, and in the types of the resulting syllables (mainly open and closed). In English, differences in syllable division may perform а distinctive function.

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