Phonetic symbols represent sounds and are used to standardize the spelling of words from various languages. They were developed in the late 19th century by linguists including Otto Jepersen, Paul Passy, Alexander John Elis, Henry Sweet, and Daniel Jones. Phonetic symbols are divided into vowels, including monopthongs and dipthongs, and consonants, which are distinguished as voiced or voiceless. Understanding phonetic symbols helps improve English pronunciation and allows non-native speakers to understand differences in words with similar spellings but different meanings.

1. Phonetic Symbol
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2. What is Phonetic Symbol?
● Phonetic is the science that studies how to produce sound
● The symbol is a sign that represents a sound
○ So, in conclusion, Phonetic symbol are a way to produce sounds that are poured into symbols.
○ There are many phonetic symbols, but in this presentation, we fokus on discussing two types:
Vowels and Consonants

3. Before we going any further, we need to know the history of phonetic symbols.
Initially, a linguist named Otto Jepersen raaised the idea of the International
Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) in his letter to Paul Passy.
History of Phonetic Symbols.
In essence, this (IPA) is shown to standardize the hiding of words
from various languages. Science was later developed by Paul Passy,
Alexander John Elis, Henry Sweet, and Daniel Jones in the late 19th
century. Until now, IPA is still being developed.

4. Example of Phonetic Symbols.
Monophtongs
is sounds like a single vowel as
usual.
Vowels are divided into two, namely: Monopthongs and Dipthongs.
What is the difference?
Diphtongs
is the sound produced by the
combination of two vowels.
How ever, in this discussion, we only summarize
the vowel and diphtong symbols.
Examples of vowel symbols and dipthongs:

5. Consonant Symbols
Consonant symbols are divided into two, namely voiceless and voiced. What is a
difference? The difference is.. Voiceless when the symbol is read, there will be no
vibration. While Voiced, when the symbol is read there is a vibrating tone.
*Example of consonant symbols : the blue one is voiceless, the black one is voiced.

6. Function of Phonetic Symbol in English
It also serves to shed light on the differences
between words that have homophones.
Provides case for non-native in
understanding English pronounciation
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2.
As we know, English is one language different from another. Especially on the written side and
the spot.
For example, for the word “bird” is the English spelling of the correct word “bird” is “Bi:d”. The “r”
at the center of the word dissipated.
Then, the function of the phonetic symbol is as follows:

7. The Reason to Study The Phonetic Symbol
1. Perfecting English material learning
mainly speaking and listening
If your speaking is correct, don’t be quick to be satisfied
because there must be some mistakes, If in the listening
lesson, this phonetic symbol would be useful in
understanding every subject’s digger and answering the
question would be easier.
2. Improving English
pronounciation in speech
Knowing each base of these makes it easier of faster
to speak English in her domain. If you mastered it,
you could be the narrator of the listening test
because it requires fluent use of speaking according
to the phonetic symbol.

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