Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Introduction

Introduction
Language has a very important place in the life of living being. It has been traced that language owes its roots far to time before the evolution of mankind. Here language doesn’t mean the language that we speak today. But in a broad sense it means any type of sign used to communicate the meaning. For example we can take dog’s “Barking” and sparrow’s “Chirping” as language because they do communicate through this medium.

By the way we are concerned here with human language only. Now days, we as a cultivated race speak more refined language than our ancestors did. These are the days when different kind of scientific and technical investigations follow in the field of language. Some languages are enjoying the supreme place in the world today. Some of theme are Chinese, French, Hindi, and German and of course English. Here we one of the focus on English Language. Not, about its origin and history but about a different aspect of English. And that aspect is “Phonetic Structure of English” its necessity and General Indian English in Comparison to RP.

Before we learn phonetic structure of English let us have brief glance on some important aspect of phonetics and what is phonetics.

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