9.What are the major functions of language?Think of your own examples for illustration. (四)教学方法与手段 1.课堂讲授，课堂讨论，提问，回答问题，头脑风暴，调查研究等。 2.多媒体、网络辅助教学、电子教案。 Chapter Two Phonology (一)目的与要求 Students will leamn 1.The phonic medium of language 2.What phonetics is 3.Organs of speech 4.IPA:Orthographic representation of speech sounds-broad and narrow transcription (4-1 Introduction to Chinese Pinyin) 5.Classification of English speech sounds 6.What phonology is 7.Phone,phoneme,and allophone 8.Phonemic contrast,complementary distribution and minimal pair 9.Some rules in phonology 10.Suprasegmental features:stress.tone.intonaiton 10-1:syllable and tone in Chinese Students will be able to analyze the phonological structures and be able to distinguish an English word from non-English word.Students will also be able to know that different stress and intonation in English words and sentences may lead to different meaning (二)教学内容 1.主要内容 2.1 The phonic medium of language Speech and writing are the two media or substance used by natural languages as vehicles for communication.Language is first perceived through its sounds.Thus the study of sounds is of great importance in linguistics.The limited range of sound produced by humans through their speech organs and meaningful in human communication constitutes the phonic medium of language;and the individual sounds within this range are the speech sounds. 2.2Phontics 2.2.1 What is phonetics? Phonetics is defined as the study of the phonic medium of language;it is 6 6 9. What are the major functions of language? Think of your own examples for illustration. （四）教学方法与手段 1. 课堂讲授，课堂讨论，提问，回答问题，头脑风暴，调查研究等。 2. 多媒体、网络辅助教学、电子教案。 Chapter Two Phonology (一) 目的与要求 Students will learn: 1. The phonic medium of language 2. What phonetics is 3. Organs of speech 4. IPA: Orthographic representation of speech sounds—broad and narrow transcription (4-1 Introduction to Chinese Pinyin) 5. Classification of English speech sounds 6. What phonology is 7. Phone, phoneme, and allophone 8. Phonemic contrast, complementary distribution and minimal pair 9. Some rules in phonology 10. Suprasegmental features: stress, tone, intonaiton 10-1: syllable and tone in Chinese Students will be able to analyze the phonological structures and be able to distinguish an English word from non-English word. Students will also be able to know that different stress and intonation in English words and sentences may lead to different meaning. (二) 教学内容 1. 主要内容 2.1 The phonic medium of language Speech and writing are the two media or substance used by natural languages as vehicles for communication. Language is first perceived through its sounds. Thus the study of sounds is of great importance in linguistics. The limited range of sound produced by humans through their speech organs and meaningful in human communication constitutes the phonic medium of language; and the individual sounds within this range are the speech sounds. 2.2 Phontics 2.2.1 What is phonetics? Phonetics is defined as the study of the phonic medium of language; it is