Answer to Question #175209 in English for Tee

Question

Speech and sounds:

Use 2 examples and explain how phonemic awareness and semantics can prevent miscommunication in the use of English.

Answer 1

Speech and Sounds.

Linguistics helps the processing of analyzing languages in all their intricate details and complexity. The phenomenon of language is very general and essential in communication. Through semantics may be approached with a different view, all linguists always agree that semantics is the fundamental communication—for instance, the word flower and flour. Phonetics helps one to hear different sounds and manipulate them during transmission.

Reference.

Keitel, A., Prinz, W., Friederici, A. D., Von Hofsten, C., & Daum, M. M. (2013). Perception of conversations: the importance of semantics and intonation in children’s development. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 116(2), 264-277.