- •The classification of speech sounds The English Consonants
- •Fig.1 Human vocal tract
- •Work of the vocal cords and the force of exhalation
- •Active organ of speech and the place of obstruction
- •List of places where the obstruction may occur
- •Manner of noise production and the type of obstruction
- •Position of the soft palate
- •Workshop on lecture 3 the classification of speech sounds The English Consonants
- •Description of principal consonant variants Occlusive Noise Consonant Phonemes (Plosives) /p, b, t, d, k, g/.
- •Occlusive Nasal Sonorants /m, n, ŋ /.
- •Constrictive Noise Consonant Phonemes (fricatives) /s, z, f, V, θ, ð, h, ʃ, ӡ/
- •Constrictive Sonorants /r, j, 1, w/
- •Occlusive-Constrictive Noise Phonemes (affricates) /tʃ, dӡ/
- •Recommended Literature on the topic:
Occlusive Nasal Sonorants /m, n, ŋ /.
Exercises
1. Read these words and spell them. Translate them into Ukrainian.
θın - θıŋ |
ræn - rʌŋ |
wınz - wıŋz |
wın - wıŋ |
sʌn - sʌŋ |
teıkn - teıkıŋ |
sın - sıŋ |
rʌn - rʌŋ |
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2. Transcribe these words, read and translate them into Ukrainian.
yarn - young |
son - sung |
thin - thing |
clean - cling |
give in - giving |
not thing - nothing |
drive in - driving |
go in - going |
come in - coming |
own - owing |
sane - saying |
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break in - breaking |
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look in - looking |
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3. Transcribe these words. Underline /ŋ / with a single line, /ŋg/ with two lines, /ŋ / with a wavy line.
lunge, England, younger, anything else, nothing of the kind, willingly, taking it, mingled, sleeping, thing, hungry, fishing, morning, driving on, longer, younger, getting on, spring, seeing a friend off.
Constrictive Noise Consonant Phonemes (fricatives) /s, z, f, V, θ, ð, h, ʃ, ӡ/
Exercises
1. Read these words, spell them and translate them into Ukrainian.
θın - sin |
θık - tık |
hi:θ - hi:t |
mʌnθs |
θık - sik |
θɔ:t - tɔ:t |
bəuθ - bəut |
ðıeıtθ zəun |
θɔ:t - sɔ:t |
θri:- tri |
kləuð - kləuz |
wıðstænd |
fɔ:θ - fɔ:s |
si:ð – si:z |
bri:ð - bri:z |
kləuðz |
mauθ - maus |
leıð - leız |
ðεə - dεə |
sıkθ |
θʌm - sʌm |
ðen - den |
ʌðə - ʌdə |
ız θın |
wə:θ - wə:s |
ðəu - dəu |
wə:ðı - wə:dı |
ıts ðıs |
2. Transcribe these words and read them.
found - thousand;
fought - thought;
Finns - things;
first - thirst;
free - three;
deaf - depth
3. State the articulatory differences between /θ-s/, /θ-t/, /θ-f/, /ð-z/. /ð-v/, /ð-d/.
4. Prove by minimal pairs that /θ-s/, /θ-t/, /ð-z/, /ð-d/ are different phonemes.
5. Read these words. Mind the pronunciation of /h/ as a pure Sound of breath.
help, hall, house, here, hand, harm, heard, hold, head, bear, hot, hills, high, whole, he, his, hen, him, hardship, holiday, horror, hotel, human, happy, behind, hither to, heather, handsome, hardly, horses, Henry, Holland, Hubert, Helen.
6. Read these words. Spell them and translate them orally into Ukrainian.
ʃı:p |
ʃip |
ʃed |
ʃeıv |
ʃeıp |
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ʃı:l |
ʃud |
ʃel |
ʃeıd |
ʃaı |
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ʃi:n |
ʃuk |
ʃeık |
ʃeım |
ʃaın |
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ı'lekʃn |
ֽkɔmpr'tıʃn |
'pledӡ |
'vıӡn |
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kəndıʃn |
ֽɔ:gənaı'zeıʃn |
'leӡə |
ə'keıӡn |
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ֽdelı'geıʃn |
'steıʃn |
dısıӡn |
'meӡə |
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7. Transcribe these words and read them.
she, sheep, shut, fish, brush, Irish, fishing, special, station, usual, usually, pleasure, shop, sugar, should, flash, British, English, anxious, anxiously, especially, Angelo, occasion, occasional.