A Critical Review of English Education (76)

Since 75 days ago, we have picked out and been discussing the following sentence,

　This is a pen.

which unfortunately has long been stigmatized as a typical one of the most unexpected utterances in daily spoken English.

However, isn’t this kind of statement a mere echo of others―perhaps? What’s more, isn’t it possibly just a unilateral blanket opinion?

With this awareness of the issue, we have been executing “factor decomposition” as follows in pursuit of acquiring a more penetrating vision to locate the latent problems involved:

　imagination　usefulness　grammar　pronunciation

Since thirty-one days ago, we have been concentrating on pronunciation factors again.

　pronunciation (57)

First, there is often a “discrepancy” between a sentence’s “phonetic configuration” and its “syntactic structure.”

Since yesterday, we have considered the difference between vowels and consonants—a seemingly simple but actually tricky issue to solve.

Watch the following video:
<http://raspberries.jp/t32.mp4>

I look forward to seeing you tomorrow.

枡矢好弘 (1976)『英語音声学』, こびあん書房.
Pike, K. L. (1943) Phonetics: A Critical Analysis of Phonetic Theory and a Technic for the Practical Description of Sounds, University of Michigan Press.