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I think you already know Of tough and bough and cough and dough?Others may stumble but not youOn hiccough, thorough, lough, and through. Well done! And now you wish, perhaps, To lean less familiar traps?
Beware of heard, a dreadful word.That looks like beard and sounds like bird. And dead: it’s said like bed, not bead-For goodness sake don’t call it ‘deed’!Watch out for meat and great and threatThey rhyme with suite and straight and debt.(T.S.W., 1970)
Phonetics-study of the characteristics of
speech sounds
Articulatory Phonetics
• how speech sounds are made or articulated
Articulation• voiced /z/ /v/ /r/
• voiceless /f/ /s/ /p/
Place of articulation
Bilabials-sounds produced formed using
both lower and upper lips
/p/ /b/ /m/ /w/
Labiodentals-these sounds formed with the
upper teeth and the lower lip
/f/ /v/
Dentals-sounds formed with the tip
behind the upper front teeth
/Ɵ/ or /th/ / /soft hard
Alveolar-sounds formed with the front part
of the tongue on the alveolar ridge
/t/ /s/ /d/ /z/ /n//l/ /r/
Alveo- Palatal-sounds produced with the tongue
and the hard palate
/sh/ /ch/ /zh/ /j/
Palatal : /y/
Velars-sounds produced with the soft
palate and back of the tongue
/k/ /g/ /ng/
Glottals-sounds produced without the
active use of the tongue and other parts of the mouth
/h/
Vowel sounds-produced with a relatively free flow of
air typically voiced
/a/ /e/ /i/ /o//u/
Diphthongs• ‘combined’ vowel sounds
Please click on the link below
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/activities/phonemic-chart
References:
• Yule, G. ( 1996). The Study of Language. 2nd ed. Cambridge, United Kingdon: Cambridge University Press.
• http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/activities/phonemic-chart