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What is a diphthong?
A diphthong is a complex sound consisting of two vowel elements pronounced so as to form a single syllable. The first element of an English diphthong is called the nucleus. The second element is called the glide (it is weak). There are eight diphthongs in English. They are: [eɪ], [uə], [aɪ], [au], [ɔɪ], [ɪə], [eə], [əu].
What is the first elements of diphthongs?
The first element of an English diphthong is called the nucleus.
What are the second elements of diphthongs?
The second element is called the glide (it is weak). There are eight diphthongs in English.
How do we start articulating phonemes?
We start with the air pushed out by the lungs up through the trachea (or windpipe) to the larynx.
Inside the larynx are you vocal folds (or vocal cords), which take two basic positions.
Where are vocal cords located?
How do we know if a sound is voiceless or voiced?
vibration of vocal cords
What are dental consonants?
Dental sounds involve the tongue tip (active articulator) making contact with the upper teeth to form a constriction. Examples of Dental sounds in English are / θ, ð/.
What are Labio -dental consonants? sounds produced with the lower lips and upper front teeth:( f, v)
What are bilabial consonants? sounds produced with the two lips: b,p,m
What are Palatal consonants? -sounds produced with the contact of the blade of the tongue and the hard palate - stressed s, z,
What are alveolar consonants? sounds produced with the contact of the tip of the tongue and the alveolar ridge - d,t,s,z,n
What is Rhythm? - rhythm is the sense of movement in speech, marked by the stress, timing, and quantity of syllables.
What are plosive consonants? —-sounds in which the air is completely blocked: (p, b, t, d)
What are sonorant sounds? - Sonorant, in phonetics, any of the nasal, liquid, and glide consonants that are marked by a continuing resonant sound. Sonorants have more acoustic energy than other consonants. In English the sonorants are y, w, l, r, m, n, and ng.
What are fricative consonants? ——– sounds in which the air escapes with difficulty ( f, v, s, z etc)
What are occlusive consonants?
By noise-forming occlusion type, consonants may be occlusive articulated with a full occlusion in the mouth cavity and constrictive articulated with a partial occlusion in the mouth cavity.
Occlusive consonants – [p], [b], [t], [d], [k], [g], [m], [n], [ŋ], [t∫], [dʒ].
Constrictive consonants – [f], [v], [θ], [ð], [s], [z], [∫], [ʒ], [h], [w], [l], [r], [j].
What is word stress?
Is relative emphasis given to a certain syllable in a word, or to a certain word in a sentence
What is tempo of speech? is a measure of the number of speech units of a given type produced within a given amount of time. Speech tempo is believed to vary within the speech of one person according to contextual and emotional factors, between speakers and also between different languages and dialects.
What are nasal consonants? English m, n, and ng (the final sound in “sing”), the mouth is occluded at some point by the lips or tongue and the airstream is expelled entirely through the nose.
What are Pharyngeal consonants? A pharyngeal consonant is a type of consonant which is articulated with the root of the tongue against the pharynx.
What are syllabic sounds? syllabic consonant or vocalic consonant is a consonant that forms a syllable on its own, like the m, n and l in the English words rhythm, button and bottle, or is the nucleus of a syllable, like the r sound in the American pronunciation of work.
What are voiced and voiceless consonants? For voiced consonants, the vocal cords are engaged, making sound. For unvoiced consonants, the vocal cords are not making sound, there is just air passing through them.
What are affricates? a phoneme which combines a plosive with an immediately following fricative or spirant sharing the same place of articulation, e.g. ch as in chair and j as in jar.
How may the English monophthongs be classified?
The English monophthongs may be classified according to the following principles:
According to the tongue position
According to the lip position
According to the length of the vowel
According to the degree of tenseness
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