Answer to Question #179663 in English for kim mothusi

Question

sound and speech: how to explain phonemic awareness and semantics can prevent miscommunication in the use in the use of English

Answer 1

Phonemic awareness can be referred to as the capability to complement, deduct or substitute new sounds in words whereas semantics can be said to be the study of implication in language.

Phonemic awareness helps in analyzing the different sounds that are in English, while semantics can be said to be the fundamental means of communicating. Phonetic assist in hearing different sounds and manipulate them during the transmission. For instance words like flower and flour are pronounced the same way but phonemic awareness and semantics helps one to know which of the word is being referred to according to the sentence.