lunes, 14 de mayo de 2012

ENGLISH DIPHTHONGS


With /i/: /ei/, /ai/, /ɔi/


With /Ə/:  /iƏ/, /eƏ/, /ᴜƏ/


With //: /Əᴜ/, /аᴜ/
EXAMPLES:

/ei/: day, pay, say        /eƏ/: bear, pair                                         
/ai/: sky, buy, cry`      /ᴜƏ/: tour, tourist, poor
/ɔi/: boy, toy, coy            /Əᴜ/: so, phone, no
/iƏ/:  beer, pie, hear            /аᴜ/: how, brown, cow





NASAL SOUNDS

NASAL SOUNDS
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/m/, /n/ and /ng/

/m/: mat
       meat
       rum

/n/: neat
                                         run
                                         knit

                                  /ng/: bring
                                          sang
                                          gong



domingo, 13 de mayo de 2012

BILABIAL
Bilabial sounds are those sounds made by the articulationof the lips against each other
/p/, /b/, /m/ and /w/

/p/: (voiceless)                                                                                 
ex: pot, happy, top            

/b/: (voiced)
ex: ball, taboo, rub

/m/: (voiced)
ex: mask, amount, calm

                                                                  /w/: (voiced)
                                                                         ex: wish, awhile






Black Vowels


A black vowel is produced with a backward shift of the tongue from it's neutral or rest position.

/u/  /ʊ/
/o/ /ɔ/
/ɑ/ 

Consonants Glides


A glide is a consonant charaterized by a continued, gliding motion of the articulators into the following vowel; also referred to as a semi- vowel 

   Voiced

                 /w/     Bilabial
                           /j/     Lingua- palatal

Consonants Fricatives

A fricative is a consonants produced by forcing the breath sream through a contriction formed by articulators in the vocal tract.

Voiceless  Voiced
                                    /f/      /v/             Labiodental
                                 /θ/     /ð/          Lingua- dental
                                    /s/      /z/            Lingua-alveolar
                             /ʃ /     /ʒ/       Lingua- palatal
                 /h/ .......... ...       Glottal



http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/#

Information in each consonants