ONE SOUND, ONE SYMBOL

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English

 

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George H

 

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March 1, 2014

 

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University

 

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Unlike ordinary letters that may or may not represent the same sounds in the same or different languages, these alphabetic characters have a consistent value (Fromkin et al., 2003). According to the phonetic transcription which is governed by the principle, “One Sound, One Symbol”, there should be a list of 26 distinct sounds in English alphabet since there are only 26 letters in English alphabet which can be further divided into consonants and vowels...
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However, there are 42 different phonemes for the 26 letters in the English alphabet. There are 15 vowel sounds and 27 consonant sounds in English language. The 15 vowels are /i/, /?/, /e/, /?/, /?/, /?/, /u?/, /?/, /o/,/?/, /a/, /?/, /aj/, /aw/,and /?j/ while the consonants are /p/, /b/, /f/, /v/, /m/, /w/, / /, /?/, /t/, /d/, /s/, /z/, /n/, /l/, /r/, /t?/, /d?/, /?/, /?/, /j/,/k/, /g/, /?/,/ h/, /?/ and /hw/ (Fromkin et al...
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