1. CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION

In this course the nature of phonetics and phonology will be explained. We are going to identify the phonemes of English. First, Language have different accents as for example in Ecuador the people from the Coast Region differ in their accent from the people from Sierra Region. Second, according this web site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A phoneme is a basic element of a spoken language or dialect. Third, according to this web site http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/features/spelling/ There are 26 letters in the English alphabet but there are many more sounds in the English language. For example,the word 'CATCH' has five letters but still only three sounds. In conclusion, all these information will be explain more clear during the study of this course.