Fonologi atau Phonology dalam Bahasa Inggris, merupakan
gabungan dari kata “phone” yang berarti “bunyi” dan “logy” yang berasal dari
Bahasa latin “logos” yang berarti “ilmu”. Secara harfiah, fonologi adalah ilmu
bunyi. Fonologi merupakan bagian dari ilmu bahasa yang mengkaji bunyi. Objek kajian fonologi di dalam Ilmu Linguistik dibagi
menjadi dua, yaitu: Fonetik/Phonetics dan Fonemik/Phonemics. Dengan demikian dapat disimpulkan bahwa fonologi adalah
cabang Ilmu Linguistik yang mengkaji bunyi-bunyi bahasa, proses terbentuknya
dan perubahannya. Fonologi mengkaji bunyi bahasa secara umum dan fungsional.
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Grafologi mengkaji tentang jenis simbol, jumlah simbol,
penggunaan simbol, paduan simbol degnan bahasa lisan.
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1. Definitions
Phonology is that branch of linguistics which
studies the sound system of languages. The sound system involves
- the actual pronunciation of words, which can be broken up into the smallest units of pronunciation, known as a segment or a phoneme. ( The words pat, chat and fat have different phonemes at the beginning, and so phonemes contrast with each other to produce different words.)
- prosody – pitch, loudness, tempo and rhythm – the ‘music’ of speech. (Other terms used are non-segmental phonology or supra-segmental phonology.)
We shall focus more on the former
because there is very little information about historical prosody!
(It might also be relevant to say
here that we will distinguish phonetics from phonology. The
former concentrates on the actual sound-making and could be thought of as being
more akin to physics; the latter concentrates on how sounds are organised in
individual languages. In order to do phonology, therefore, you will necessarily
need to know at least some of the phonetics.)
IPA Symbol
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Word
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Alternative Symbols
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IPA
Symbol
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Word
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Alternative Symbols
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g
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get
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x
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loch (Scottish)
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Z
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pleasure
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(American)
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dZ
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jam
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(American)
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S
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ship
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(American)
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tS
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chin
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(American)
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N
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sing
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?
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settle (Cockney)
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T
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thin
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j
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yes
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y (American)
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D
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this
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2. The IPA
Phonologists and phoneticians generally have to use special symbols – usually the IPA, or International Phonetic Alphabet.
Phonologists and phoneticians generally have to use special symbols – usually the IPA, or International Phonetic Alphabet.
This module does not attempt to
teach you the IPA, although we will introduce you to the symbols used for
English.
One word of warning: we said that English
spelling was phonetic, more or less; we also said that English spelling
sometimes represents morphemes as well. We need to careful, therefore, and not
assume that every letter represents a phoneme. For example, people often talk
about ‘dropping the g’ in words like talking and running
(often written as talkin’ and runnin’), whereas <ng> in talking
represents one sound /N/, and <n’> in talkin’ represents another
sound /n/; ‘dropping’ suggests that one sound has been left out.
Another convention that might be
useful to mention here is that orthographic symbols (including spelling) are
indicated by the use of angle brackets, as in <ch>; phonetic symbols are
indicated by the use of square brackets, as in [k]; and phonemes are indicated
by the use of oblique strokes, as in /k/.
BACA JUGA : what is phonology ?
There are a number of websites that
you can go to for further information.
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You can go to a web page maintained
by Michael Quinion for a quick introduction: http://www.quinion.com/words/pronguide.htm
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You can also go to Peter Ladefoged’s
website that also contains sound files for you to listen to how the phonetic
symbols are pronounced: http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/vowels/contents.html
(Peter Ladefoged is a British-born linguist in the University of California,
Los Angeles.)
(It might also be useful to add that
a number of American linguists use a modified version of the IPA, so be
forewarned if you have consulted or are consulting American texts.)
First of all, the letters b, d, f,
h, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t, v, w, z are given their conventional values as in
normal English spelling.
Here are some other symbols for
consonants with examples of the sounds (italicised) from English words. The
alternative symbols have been included for information and will not be used in
this module.
Nah sekian sob.
source : Modul UT/courses.nus.edu.sg/
author : mas ririd