Important definitions in English Sounds - phonetics

في الجمعة أبريل 01, 2016 10:40 pm

Consonant
It is one of a set of sounds in which air from the lungs is seriously obstructed in the mouth, and which occurs in similar positions in words.

Friction Consonants
They are sounds made by narrowing of the air passage until the air is interfered with and causes friction.

Gliding Consonants
They are consonants with no stop or friction which have a rapid glide to a vowel.

Diphthong
It is a smooth glide from one vowel position to another, the whole glide acting like one of the long , simple vowels.

Phonemic Transcription
It is the representation of each phoneme by a single symbol.

Received Pronunciation
It is the kind of pronunciation which is used by many educated speakers, particularly in south-east England. Sometimes it is called B.B.C. English.

Stress
It is a greater effort on a syllable or syllables in a word or longer utterance than on the other syllables.

Bilabial
The two lips come together as in /b/p/m/. l

Labiodentals
The lower lip and the upper teeth come together as in /f/v/.l

Dental
The tip or the blade of the tongue comes in contact with the upper teeth

Alveolar
The tip or the blade of the tongue touches the alveolar ridge which is directly behind the upper teeth as in /d/t/n/l/s/z/r/.l

Palato-alveolar
The tip of the tongue is close to the alveolar ridge while the front of the tongue is concave to the roof of the mouth .

Palatal
The front of the tongue approximates to the hard plate as in /j/. l

Velar
The back of the tongue approximates to the soft palate as in /k,g,n,w/.

في الجمعة مايو 06, 2016 11:13 pm

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في الإثنين مايو 23, 2016 7:43 pm

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Important definitions in English Sounds - phonetics

Important definitions in English Sounds - phonetics

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