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That sound you hear, as though coming off the lonely Scottish hills, through the fine Highland air, passing across straths and glens, along rivers and to the sea... Is the sound of the piobaireachd, the classical music of the great Highland bagpipe, a music made for Gatherings, Salutes and Laments, a grand and grave and complicated music - Ceol Mor it is in Gaelic - The Big Music. The Big Music, too, is the title of my latest work of fiction - not a novel, but an elegy, as Virginia Woolf described all her work - a story that sounds as much as it says... An experience of words, of a story of people and a landscape, of a love story played across generations, that nevertheless sounds in the mind...

Our relationship with sound is an intimate one – arguably the most intimate with any of our five senses. We live in a visual society. Many people would say that sight is our primary sense. We hear before we see. In the womb, the fetus begins to develop an auditory system between seventeen and nineteen weeks. Already we are in a world of sound, of breath and heartbeat, of rhythm and vibration. Already, we are feeling the sound with our bodies.

Il est question ici des propriétés phonétiques des voyelles « pures » ou monophtongues, puis de celles des diphtongues. Sont précisés pour chaque son la position de la langue et des lèvres ainsi que le degré d’aperture. Il est important de garder à l’esprit qu’en anglais, d’autres facteurs physiologiques entrent en jeu telles que la tension de la langue et parfois la diphtongaison.

Cette partie du précis d'anglais oral décrit les différentes diphtongues de la langue anglaise.

Cette partie du précis d'anglais oral décrit les différentes monophtongues de la langue anglaise.