pronounciation notes

pronounce.txt

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.

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    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