islamization of phonetics and phonology part 2

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

السلام عليكم

PLACE OF ARTICULATION

           First of all, we need to know what is the definition of place of articulation in order for us to understand and get the gist before we go further into the organ that are responsible as a place of articulation. According to Robert Mannel from Macquarie University, place of articulation is defined in terms of the articulators involved in the speech gesture. It is common to refer to a speech gesture in terms of an active articulator and a passive articulator. Besides place of articulation, we also have manner of articulation that work together with each other.

MANNER OF ARTICULATION

The organs that involve as part of place of articulation are nostrils, lips, alveolar ridge, nasal cavity, hard palate, oral cavity, teeth, tongue, velum (soft palate), uvula, pharynx, epiglottis, larynx, vocal folds and glottis. Each of these organs have their own role to produces certain sound of certain alphabets.

PLACE OF ARTICULATION OF ARABIC LETTERS

MEMORIZATION

            Islamization of phonetics and phonology is in term of memorization. Memorization is of phonetics and phonology is important because with it we can only produced the correct sound of the certain words and the alphabets. Like when we read the Qur’an, we read it with tone or called ‘taranum’. It means we read it with different tones or ‘harakat’ based on the makraj. It is the same with the stressed and unstressed words in English pronunciation. There also nasal and non-nasal in Arabic especially when reading the Qur’an. To read the Qur’an correctly one should know on how to differentiate between nasal and non-nasal and long or short the letters to be. Thus, to Islamize phonetics and phonology in term of memorization an individual should keep on learning it with the heart and love it  because without the love or the interest in it then an individual cannot find they way to be close with it.

REFERENCES

About Tajweed. (2007). Place of articulation introduction to articulation points of the arabic letters. Retrieved March 27, 2013, from 

www.abouttajweed.com/articulation-points- areas-of-the-arabic-letters/places-of-articul.html

Mannel, R. (2009). Phonetics and phonology place of articulation. Retrieved March 27, 2013, from

            clas.mq.au/phonetics/phonetics/consonants/place.html