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pronounciation notes
English Study:
th sound:
think about this thing that thing and those things
minimal pairs:
tin thin
boat both
pad path
voiced:
the
unvoiced:
think
- the tip of your toungue has to be touching the back of your upper front teeth
- while pushing air out between the tongue and the bony ridge behind the upper front teeth
th sound is a fricitive
a continous sound that is created by allowing only a small amount of air to leave th mouth
which causes friction and sound.
we can continue to make the sound for as long as we have breath in our lungs.
d and t:
stop sound - we briefly stop all air from leaving the mouth and then we make the sound when
the air is released.
d: voiced
t: unvoiced
stop the air on the tooth ridge and then make the sound.
dime time
dance tense
code coat
tide tight
spend spent
s an z:
cats love boxes dogs love beds
fricative
tip of the tongue is way forward
we make a little groove with our tongue and push the air out through the center of the tip of the tongue and
along that bony ridge behind our front teeth
z: is has please because these those
r sound:
on thursday thelma threw three red rocks
r-l : liquid sounds
bunch the toungue up in the centre of the mouth.
sound is smooth and the tongue never touches the tooth rigde.
the very back of the tounge is responsible for the articulation
raise rough red
back of the tounge is low for the l sound, and it is high for the r sound.
I would really like a little red wagon like Laura's.
play pray
climb crime
arrive alive
laugh
like
let
list
--
girl
world
learn
early
really
word world
r-controlled wovels:
learning early in the morning can be fairly hard work.
- - - - -
a e i o u <-> 15 sounds
top (a)
home (normal o)
dog (not dug -- not d-o-g)
--ar
car
farm
start
smart
dark
--or
for
tore
store
explore
corn
--air
air
stair
hair
care
--ir ..īr (we just hear the r sound -- schwapless r)
girl <the r sound is nearly taking over the wovel>
learn
first
work
--
terrain
train
her girl burn
work word
y sound:
Will you watch TV quietly while I'm working?
semi-wovels (glides)
west vest
wine vine
verse worse
y is similar to long e sound (keep, ear)
year ear
quiet (qwiyet)
idea
fluent (fluwent)
evaluate (evaluwate)
long wovel sounds:
a e i o u
a long wovel says its name
cake k - a - k (aey)
keep k - i - p
bike b - i - k
home h - o(w) - m
cute c - you - t
cute rule
faith aim play grade safe may
each eat team deep free
ice bright smile shy fly
own both drove glove throw
youth huge pure few view
short wovel sounds:
cat (short a)
lift middle of tounge and push through the middle of bottom teeth a little
high muscle involvement
add after bath plan crash
fast
bed (short e b - e - d)
end enter bend yes dress
said bread
sit (short i)
middle of tongue is a little higher than short e
it ill gift since drip
myth
top (short o - a)
open our mouth a lot.
odd on box lot rock
lot
son (short u)
press back of tongue down. mouth not as open as in short o.
up us jump luck fun
done blood
soon put
put (u as input)
son
put book foot
could should would
oo sound and u as input
school
loose
tooth
rule
choose
cake keep bike home cute (long wovels)
cat bed sit top son
a son short u
I put u as input
u soon oo sound
good fruit looks like good food should.
cat short a ask
bed short e head
sit short i him
top short o stop
son short u from
soon oo sound brooze
put u as input took
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