Chomsky Syntactic Structures

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the Study

Language is a system or method of communication either spoken or written. Language is set (finite or infinite) of sentences, each finite in length, and constructed out of a finite set of elements’. Chomsky, Syntactic structures (1957:13) .Language is a system of conventional spoken, manual, or written symbols by means of which human beings, as members of a social group and participants in its culture, express themselves. The function of language include communication the expression of identity, play, imaginative expression, and emotional release.

Linguistics is the scientific study of language and its structure, including the study of grammar syntax and phonetics. The word phonetic

Language

"A language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols by means of which a social group cooperates.

From now on I will consider a language to be a set (finite or infinite) of sentences, each finite in length and constructed out of a finite set of elements." (Noam Chomsky,

Syntactic Structures, 1957)

2. Phonetic

Phonetics is the branch of linguistics that deals with the sounds of speech and their production, combination, description, and representation by written symbols

Adjectives. A spelling system can be described as phonetic if you can understand how words are pronounced simply by looking at their spelling.

3. Phonology

Phonology tells us what sounds are in a language, how they do and can combine into words, and explains why certain phonetic features are important to identify a word.

4. Pronunciation

Pronunciation is the way a word or a language is spoken, or the manner in which someone utters a word. If one is said to have "correct pronunciation", then it refers to both within a particular dialect. A word can be spoken in different ways by various individuals or groups, depending on many factors, such as: the duration of the cultural exposure of their childhood, the location of their current residence, speech or

Pronunciation is the way in which the word pronounced. People are doing countless mistakes when they speak English. Sometime this is happen due to impact of mother tongue. Shak, Lee and Stephen (2016) said that pronunciation plays very important role in

Obtainability Graduates are mostly unfairly judged when they fail to satisfy others of their ability due to poor pronunciation and not having the language to express about them well. Pronunciation plays a significant part in our personal and social lives because the way we speak reflects our identities, and indicates our association to particular communities (Seidlhofer, 2001).The researchers research to identify the specific sounds that are commonly mispronounced by low oral proficiency Malaysian students. This research base on sounds that were commonly mispronounced by the students were vowels (pure short vowels, pure long vowels and diphthongs), consonants (plosives, fricatives and affricates), silent letters, and the ‘-ed’ form. From the findings, this study recommends the use of the commonly mispronounced sounds as the content in