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Taking into account the prevailing articulatory and auditory approach
in phonetics and phonology classes (even at tertiary level), the aim
of the paper is to underline the importance of instrumental (acoustic)
data in supplementing and enriching the traditional educational approaches
in this area.
After briefly discussing applicability of sound synthesis
and sound recognition tools in pedagogic environment, I focus on speech
analysis, in particular on those computer tools that enable analysis
and visual display of both segmental and prosodic features of speech.
Considering my specific situation of teaching English Phonetics
to Slovene students of English, the focus of the paper is on contrastive
analysis of segmental and prosodic features of English and Slovene.
Some of the main differences between the two languages, which often
lead to mispronunciations by Slovene students, are illustrated on the
basis of instrumental analysis and spectral display.
Bibliographic reference. Sustarsic, Rastislav (2003): "Application of acoustic analysis in English phonetics teaching", In ICPhS-15, 2841-2844.