UKHRUL|25 Nov 2024: Application of the Concept of Sub-Syllables in English Language: New English Pronouncing Skills Training Format 2 by the National Teacher Awardee Ningmareo Shimray covers all the aspects of English pronunciation and enable to pronounce every word correctly in Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (4th Edition) and Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (10th Edition).
Introduction:
By applying the Concept of Sub-syllables in English Language, a new strategy of learning English
pronouncing skills is developed which includes all aspects of English pronunciation and enables to
pronounce every word correctly in Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (4th Edition) and Oxford
Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (10th Edition). This article is designed to serve as practice format for
learning English pronouncing skills efficiently. In this article, IPA transcriptions and corresponding
Author’s phonetic symbols of the pronunciation of every word are geven with both British and American
pronunciations, part of speech and origin.
Concept of Sub-Syllables in English Language
A sub-syllable is defined as an alphabet/letter or group of alphabet/letters which forms a part of a syllable
(if the word is multi-syllable)/monosyllable. English is a non-phonetic language. However, the possible
sounds of every sub-syllable are finite and that the sound of every sub-syllable depends on the parts of
speech, structure and origin of a word. The sub-syllables include all the sounds of vowels
(monophthong/diphthong/triphthong) and consonants (voiced and voiceless). The Concept of Sub
Syllables is a new system for learning English pronunciation efficiently. It has enabled to pronounce
every word in an English dictionary correctly and easily, indicates and explains the silence of sounds
when pronouncing some words, identifies different words having the same pronunciation and different
words with similar pronunciations, has enabled to pin-point the differences between the British and
American English pronunciations.
