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Pronunciation Practice
Semester 2 Week 2
March 2013Engliana
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CONSONANTS
Excerpt taken fromA Practical Guide to Understanding Basic English
Phonetics and Phonology
(Faizah Sari, 2011)
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English Phonetics
1. Consonantsmanner, place, voice
2. Vowelsmonophthongs, diphthongs
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Consonants
Voice
the state of vocal folds (vibrate ornot?)
Place
which articulators are involved in theproduction of particular sound
Manner
how the sound is produced, the
direction of the air is flowing, & the
circumstances affecting the tongue
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(1) Voice
Voiced consonant a sound
is produced when the vocal
cords are vibrating
Voiceless consonants a
sound made with no
vibration of the vocal cords
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STAND-ALONE
CONSONANTS NO PARTNERS
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(2) Place of articulation
10 places of articulation when producing
consonant sounds: bilabial, labiodental,
dental, alveolar, postalveolar, retroflex,
palatal, velar, glottal, & labial-velar
The position of your articulators
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BILABIAL
/p/Pay
Apple
Stop
/b/Boy
Rabbit
Tub
/m/ me
LABIODENTAL
/f/Fun
Office
If
/v/Very
Over
Save
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ALVEOLAR
/t/ Top, Return, Cat
/d/ Day, Ladder, Bed
/s/ Sit, Basket, Kiss
/z/ Zoo, Busy, Buzz
/n/ No, Window, Run
/l/ Lamp, Yellow, Pool
DENTAL
//Think
Bathtub
Mouth
//
The
Father
Smooth
Tips!
Tongue:
Between the teeth
Airflow: continuous
with no interruption
/n/
/l/
/t/ - /d/ and /s/ - /z/
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POSTALVEOLAR
// Shoe, Nation, Wish
// Chair, Teacher, Witch
// Measure, Vision, Rouge
// Jam, Magic, Age
RETROFLEX
/r/Red
Marry
Far
/s/ and /z/ also // and //
Tips!
Lips: Rounded
Tongue: Curled upwardbut not touching the roof
of the mouth
Airflow: continuous
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PALATAL (hard palate)
/j/You, UniversityOnion, Beyond
Farmyard
VELAR (soft palate)
/k/ Cake, Car, Book
/g/ Go, Begin, Egg
// Hungry, Tongue
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GLOTTAL (on the glottis)
// uh-oh
/h/ Hat, Behind, Who
LABIAL-VELAR (lips & soft palate)
/w/ We, Away, Anyone
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(3) Manner of articulation
6 manners: stops, fricatives, affricatives,
nasals, approximants, & lateral approximant
The direction of air flowing from your nose or
mouth
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STOP /p/ /b/ /t//d/ /k//g/ //
FRICATIVE /f/ /v/ // // /s/ /z/ //// /h/
AFFRICATIVE // //
NASAL /m/ /n///
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NASAL /m/ /n/ //
APPROXIMANT /r/ /j/ /w/
LATERAL-APPROXIMANT /l/
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Practices
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Online practicing
http://www.eyespeakenglish.com/en/index.p
hp (download demo, recording voice)
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ASSIGNMENT 1
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