Phonetics
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Obstruents and sonorants with pronunciation and examples
Obstruent An obstruent is a plosive, a fricative, or an affricate, that is, any consonant where airflow through the vocal…
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Grapheme and the Difference between a phoneme, a grapheme, a morpheme
Grapheme A grapheme is the basic unit of written language, corresponding in most cases to the letter. There are twenty-eight…
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Consonant phonemes in English/ coherent speech/examples
Consonant sounds All consonants are different shades of noise. When they are formed, the air stream encounters an obstacle in…
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English vowel phonemes in coherent speech with details
English vowel phonemes in speech Vowel sounds are sounds in the formation of which the airflow freely passes through the…
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Organs of speech definition/active/passive organs/diagram
It is necessary to know the structure of the human speech apparatus, i.e. know the organs of speech. The exhaled…
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Sound-letter correlations in English with description
Sound-letter correlations in English In any language, words are made up of sounds and letters. Letters are used in writing…
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Six Manners of Articulation With description
Manners of Articulation In articulatory phonetics, the form of articulation is the configuration and interaction of the articulators (speech organs…
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Difference between Contoids and Vocoids with details
Contoids A term introduced by Kenneth Pike to act as the phonetic equivalent of the term consonant. Contoids are sounds…
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Assimilation in linguistics/definition/types/effects
Assimilation Assimilation , log in linguistics, the similarity of one sound (phoneme) to another voice (phoneme) in the course of speech. This event is the…
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Cardinal Vowels in English with list and detail
Cardinal Vowels in English with list Cardinal Vowels The cardinal vowel is a system devised by the British phoneticist Daniel…
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