PHONETIC ANALYSIS AND ITS PHONEMIC INTERPRETATION
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This paper explores the intricate relationship between phonetic analysis and phonemic interpretation in the study of language sound systems. Phonetic analysis offers a detailed description of speech sounds from articulatory, acoustic, and auditory perspectives, while phonemic interpretation assigns linguistic function to those sounds by identifying contrastive elements (phonemes) and their variants (allophones). The paper highlights how phonetic observations are transformed into meaningful linguistic categories, contributing to language teaching, speech therapy, and linguistic research. By examining examples from English and other languages, the study demonstrates the necessity of bridging phonetics and phonemics for a comprehensive understanding of language sounds.
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