This course covers English speech sounds and speech sound patterns. It includes the English vowel and consonant systems, phonetic and phonemic transcriptions, concepts of allophone and phoneme, syllable, segmental features, and connected speech processes(This course covers English speech sounds and speech sound patterns. It includes the English vowel and consonant systems, phonetic and phonemic transcriptions, concepts of allophone and phoneme, syllable, segmental features, and connected speech processes)