SINHALA-ENGLISH

A colloquial Sinhalese reader in phonetic transcription

By Daniel Jones , Henry S Perera

Book information

Language
sinhala-english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (4926255 bytes)
Pages
0\74
Topic
Linguistics Foreign
Library
twirpx
Time added
2017-08-07 07:01:42
Языки и языкознание;Сингальский язык

Description

Publisher: Manchester, The University press; London, New York Date: 1919 Pages: 57For the benefit of readers to whom phonetics is a new subject we would explain that phonetics is the science of pronunciation. The primary object of this science is to analyse the mechanism of speech with the greatest possible accuracy. Phonetic theory is mainly- concerned with describing how speech-sounds are made, and with instructing language learners how to learn to produce foreign sounds. Phonetic transcription is an adjunct to the study of phonetics. It is a special kind of writing based on the principle " one letter per phoneme. " Its object is to inform the reader what sequences of sounds are used in particular words and sentences. This book is not primarily a treatise on the phonetics of Sinhalese, but we have thought that a useful purpose would be served by giving a certain amount of information on this subject in the Introduction. Learners of the language must remember that in order to profit by the texts it is essential that they should first be able to make the isolated Sinhalese sounds.

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