... PHONOLOGY...

1. I understand Phonetics as the study of the human speech sounds, I mean how we produces the sounds in order to speak an Phonology is focus on the interpretations and forms of those sounds and how we recognize and understand the sounds in order to speak.

2. a. Determine which phonetics sounds are significant.

    b. Explain how the sounds are interpretate by native speakers.

    c. Organize the sound and represent them by symbols.

http://www.-01.sil.org/linguistics/GlosaryOfLinguisticsTerms/WhatIsPhonology.htm

3. PHONEME: Any of a small set of units, usually about 20 to 60 in number and different for each language considered to be the basic distinctive units of speech sound by which morphemes, words, and sentences are represented. They are arrived at for any given language by detemining which differences in sound function to indicate a difference in meaning, so, that in English the difference in sound and meaning between pit and bit is taken to indicate the existence of different labial phonemes, while the difference in sound between the unaspirated p of spun and the aspirated p os pun, since it is never the only distiguishing feature between two different words, is not taken as ground for setting up two different p phonemes in English.

LETTER:  A symbol or character that is convencionally used  in witing and printing to represent a speech and that is a part of an alphabet.

DIGRAPH: A pair of letters representing a single speech sound as ea in meat or th in path.

CONSONANT CLUSTER: A group of consonants which have no intervening vowel. In English for example, the groups /spl/ and /ts/ are consonant clusters in the word splits.

ALLOPHONE: Any of the members of a class of speech sound that, taken together, are commonly felt to be a phoneme, as the t sounds of toe, stow, tree, hatpin, catcall, cats, catnip, button, metal, city; a speech sound constituting one of the phonetic manifestations or variants of a particular phoneme. 

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4. There are 44 phonemes in English, 20 vowels and 24 consonants:

5. The sress of a word is the part where yoou put a rising intonation when you pronounce it:

TAble --  HAPpy --  geoGRAPHic -- reveLAtion -- phoTOgraphy -- CRItical -- GREENhouse -- underSTAND

... WHY IS LINGUISTICS IMPORTANT?...

For me, Linguistiques is important because when you´re studying a language tou need to follow a sequence or process which is encharged of the structure of the language, I mean it is very important that you understand the meaning of the words, the grammar and sense of a sentence and the correct way to put it into a context and be able to communicate complite and coherence message with someone else.

So, you´re like a baby acquiring sounds, words, semtences, then you repeat those words, and finnaly you produce your own conversation, but you have to make sure about the real sense and meaning of all the words you say. You have to understand the correct way to construct sentences for an assertive communication...

...INTRODUCTION TO PHONETICS...

TASK # 1

1. For SIL International Phonetics is the study of human speech sounds.(http://www.sil.org/linguistics/glosary of linguistic terms/WhatIsPhonetics.htm)

2. For British Association of Academis Phoneticians, Phonetics is the systematic study of speech and the sounds of language. Tradicionallt phoneticiand rely on careful listening and observation in order to describe speech sounds. In doing this, a phonetician refers to a classificatory framework for speech sounds which is based on how they are made and on aspects of the auditory impression they make. (http://www.baap.uk.phonetics.htm)

3. For Richard Norquist Phonetics is the branch of linguistics that deals with the sounds of speech and their production, combination, description, and representation by written symbols. (http://grammar.about.comold, )

4. I understand that phonetics is the process where is encharge of human speech and all the sounds we produce but also graphic representations of those sounds.

...HOW DO WE ACQUIRE LANGUAGE...

For many years, scientists ans neurologist and why not, some psychologist have wanted to realize how human brain works, and more specifically how do humans acquire knowledge and how we are able to produce and develop a language. If it is true that human brain is a very complicated but extraordinary thing, I really agree with Dr. Brown when he says in his book "Principles in Language Learning and Teaching" (Chapter 2) that there are many environments or issues that affect the way we acquire a language, so it is important to take into account that although we are humans all of us have the ability to speak and learn, we do it in different ways.

Also Mr. Brown talked about three important points which he contrasted them like: behavioristic, nativist and functional, where he define some characteristics of each one in order to deepen in how we act everyday and how we develop ourselves in a natural context and then hoe we work in cognitive process to learn or acquire a new language. I think all those factors are very important, but it is a process, a long process where you have to help children since they are just fetuses, so they can perceive all our affective interaction and all the thing we say and do let them to grow and encourage them to have an assertive language acquisition.

...How do I think humans acquire knowledge...

I think it is a process where you listen and perceive all thinks around and you start to create conscious about things and finally you produce...

Victor Wooten define the way that we acquire a language as a process where you embase mistakes instead of correct them. You have to practice  all the time.

He says that music is a language, it is a form of expression. Music works better than spoken word because you can speak to one or many at the same time; language work better when we have something interesting to say.