ETYMOLOGICAL SOURCES OF MODERN ENGLISH

1. Etymological sources of modern English

English has one of the largest vocabularies of all spoken languages – 800 000 words. The vocabulary of ModE is 13 times the vocabulary of OE.

LOAN WORDS

1. Loan words

PHONETICS AS A BRANCH OF A LINGUISTICS. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY

1. Phonetics as a branch of a Linguistics


A. Definition Phonetics (from the Greek: phōnē, which means sound, voice, tone) is a branch of linguistics that comprises the study of the sounds of human speech, or  in the case of sign languages  the equivalent aspects of sign

It is the science of human speech sounds of their articulation, identification and organization in words and sentences. It is also deals with stress and intonationIt is concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds or signs (phones): their physiological production, acoustic properties, auditory perception, and neurophysiological status.