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Today we'll be moving into the first of what are often called the "core" areas of linguistics. We start with phonetics---the study of how speech sounds are articulated and perceived. Before approaching this Blog Post, please complete the assignment on phonetics posted today (HW3).

Once you've done that, please post about something you've noticed/been made aware of regarding your own pronunciation of certain words---or some vowels or consonants that you seem to produce (or not produce) that some other English speakers do (or do not). That is, what have you noticed about your own speech that is different from other varieties of English? This may make you think a bit about the issue of "prescriptive rules" that we talked about yesterday, but focus here on aspects of your speech (i.e. aspects of pronunciation rather than grammar).