Phonology
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Phonology is the way languages organise sounds. Australian English has 44 different speech sounds and since our 26 letters of the alphabet cannot capture all the sounds we have a separate phonetics alphabet with additional symbols.
A word such as ‘sjhut’ is not a potential word in English because it violates the rules that describe all possible and impossible combinations of sounds. However, rules could theoretically change over time. There are nearly ten thousand words that exist and ten thousand more could possibly exist too.
A word such as ‘sjhut’ is not a potential word in English because it violates the rules that describe all possible and impossible combinations of sounds. However, rules could theoretically change over time. There are nearly ten thousand words that exist and ten thousand more could possibly exist too.
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There are lots are variations to how to pronounce each letter. If we take the letter [t] and see how it in pronounced in top, stop, bitten, butter, they are all pronounced differently depending on where it is in the word. Most native English speakers are unaware of this and can articulate these sounds automatically where as foreign speakers have to be more, which is how foreign accents are formed.