Studying English Language System Essay

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Studying English Language System is really important because we can understand and use English more effectively and like native speakers from this subject, including the sounds, the sound patterns, word structure, word formation, sentence organization and the meaning and use of English. After studying the unit 1, there is a lot of useful knowledge. First, the sounds of English are quite different from Thai and other languages, for example, /θ/ [th sound] does not exist in Thai. When Thai people pronounce this sound, they will use the Thai sound that is similar to /θ/ instead. The word “theme” they will use /ต/ /t/, an unaspirated sound replaces /θ/. They will pronounce /tiːm/ instead /θiːm/. This pronunciation is not correct because /θ/ is voiceless interdental fricative, but /ต/ is voiceless alveolar stop. Second, our pronunciation is better improved. We pronounce English words more clearly and correctly than before because of following the production of speech sounds such as voicing, the place ,and the manner of articulation. Finally, we know some unusual pronunciations of English words by reading phonetic transcriptions such as sword /sɔːrd/ and schedule /ˈskedʒ.uːl/. The unit 2, we learn about the allophone, various ways to pronounce the word. For example, the sound …show more content…

For example, she saw a match with glasses. The lexical ambiguity is “match” that has two meanings that are a sports competition or event in which two people or teams compete against each other and another meaning is the person who has scored the most points or played the best in a match(Cambridge). The structure ambiguity occurs in a prepositional phrase that modifies a match or saw. The meanings of this sentence are she saw a match (a sport competition)by using glasses, she saw a match (a person)by using glasses and she saw a match who wears

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