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Pronunciation in English is quite varied and can be overwhelming since a lot of it depends on the context or situation. Meanings change with differing pronunciations so this unit gives broad or general guidelines for English pronunciation. Intonation, stress, and rhythm are the major components to pronunciation. The rise or fall of your voice (intonation) can give different meanings to what you are communicating. For example, a rise/fall would mean you have completed what you wanted to say (\"OK.\"). But ending in a rise (fall/rise) would convey a response is required or about to follow (\"OK?\"). Stress also places emphasis on different words or syllables to convey different meanings. Where you place the stress in the sentence can change the meaning of your sentence. For example: \"HE didn't mean to\" (somebody else meant to) or \"He didn't MEAN to\" (accidentally). Articulation involves all the different parts of your mouth, throat, and vocal chords. Depending upon the different places of articulation, you will produce different sounds, as well as, the manner of the articulation. The diverse nature of linguistics has produced an International Phonemic Alphabet chart to simply provide a set of symbols that represent or mimic the way sounds in English are put together to create words. I think the linguistics aspect (the study of it) helps us to understand general rules much like how grammar can be broken down into parts and aspects, with guidelines and rules.
