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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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