The path to learning to speak a language as a native speaker is blocked with barriers to you. Some of these barriers are apparent, such as accents, and vocabularies. Yet, even the mastery of both is really not enough. The subtle barriers not as easily spotted are the proper inflection and intonation and knowing where to place the correct emphasis are the more musical aspects of the languages. Phonology is the study which will help to point out these obscure keys to fluency and is the basis on which other aspects of linguistics are based.

The crossroad between phonology and morphology is where there is an interesting mystery of words. Linguists often find it difficult to define the exact properties of a word. At first it may not be apparent why. For those who are learning Italian you will need to pay close attention to how changes are made in what you hear, such as from the nonsense sounds to words full of meaning. This will be important as you progress in learning a
new vocabulary. You may be tempted to use phonological clues, such as tone, stress, and pauses for breath to classify a word, but as you will see this may not be a correct assumption.

Phonology is a wide ranging subject, which covers other questions with complicated names, such as assimilation, epenthesis, the adding sounds to words, and what phonotactic sound combinations are allowed within a given language. Then there are subjects with much more simpler terms, such as the mysterious properties of the letter "s" in Italian. These are all interesting topics because of the misconception which surrounds them. It is however, through the mastery of puzzles like these that you can come almost begin understanding Italian, whether you are a native speaker or not.

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