3 features:• Manner• Place• Voicing

(Plosives)FricativesAffricates

Recap: Plosives

Plosives:

bilabialalveolar

velar(palatal)

labio-dental

dental

alveolar

postalveolar(palato-alveolar)

Places of articulation: fricatives

Fricatives

The following slides were made using Daniel Currie Hall’s website athttp://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~danhall/phonetics/sammy.html

Features:unvoicedbilabialstop

p

pipe

(Features:unvoicedbilabialfricative)

(Features:unvoicedbilabialfricative)

vamos

Features:unvoicedlabiodentalfricative

f

fine, life

Features:voicedlabiodentalfricative

v

very clever

Features:unvoiceddentalfricative

think

Features:voiceddentalfricative

ð

this

Features:unvoicedalveolarstop

t

tart

Features:unvoicedalveolarfricative

s

sea

Features:voicedalveolarfricative

z

zero

Features:unvoicedpostalveolarfricative

she, pressure

Features:voicedpostalveolarfricative

measure

Features:unvoicedglottalfricative

h

home

f,v

f,v

,ð =þ

ð

Click for

Sibilants

h

Affricates

• There are no affricates in Icelandic, but if you’ve mastered the post-alveolar fricatives they should cause no problems

chess

Jess

fortis

lenis

Don’t forget to make a clear distinction between the fortis and lenis forms:

rich - ridge

larch – large

search – surge• not only with the voicing of ,

• but also by clipping caused by

Affricates