Contrastive Analysis of Bangla and English Monophthongs
Eshita Awal · IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science · 2013
Linguistics is the scientific study of a language, more precisely human language because it is the mankind who only uses language meaningfully.Linguistics has different fields.Phonetics is one of the fields where speech sound is analysed generally along with the sound production, transmission and reception.Again, phonology is the field where different sound systems of a language are analysed through scientific method.This paper deals with the phonology field where two languages, English and Bangla, are discussed.Every language has its own phonemes where each of them carries unique characteristics and these make them different from one another.Contrastive phonology is the field where different phonemes of a language are put side by side and studies different features of each phoneme.These are again analysed with phonemes of other language.Moreover, this is done to compare and contrast the sound systems, especially the pure vowels of two or more languages.Also, it has detailed scientific explanations of the reasons that people find it easier to learn Bangla Pure Vowel than that of English Pure Vowel.Finally, this paper is written to explore the fact that English phonemics is easier than Bangla phonemics (concerned with pure vowels).