Initial and Final Consonants on Prezi
Watch the presentation on Initial and Final consonants. Then, answer the questions below.
a) Besides being voiced and voiceless, how can consonants be differentiated?
b) What is aspiration?
c) When are all voiceless sounds aspirated?
d) How is aspiration phonetically represented?
e) When are all medial consonants aspirated?
f) When is /t/ flap?
g) What is lengthening?
h) How do you phonetically represent lengthening?
i) When are stressed vowels lengthened?
j) When are voiceless sounds aspirated at the end of words?
Consonants are differenciated by their lengthening and aspiration. Asirations is the sound of escaping air and it is represented by a "h". Voiceless consonants are aspirated at beginning of words. Medial consonants are aspirated after a vowel and before the last one, these consonants are onle aspirated at the beginning of a stressed syllable. Flap t occurs between voiced sounds usually vowels that does not stand at the beginning of a stressed syllable. Lengthening happens when you make the vocal cords vibrate at the final vowel sound of a word. stresses vowels are legthened before a final voiced consonant. Voiceless sounds are aspirated at the end of words when they are continuants, stop consonants are not aspirated.
ReplyDelete(Yendry Torres) The phonetic rules help non-native speakers to improve pronunciation and articulate better. For example, it´s really important to differentiate between voiced and voiceless consonants, when we make a “harder effort” to pronounce them, or the vocal cords vibrate. Then, when they are aspirated, we let air to escape through the mouth. The flat “t” is when “t” sound is between voiced sounds, so it sounds like /d/. Finally, lengthening is when we make a longer sound because the sound is before voiced sounds, so in this case, we spend more time pronouncing that specific sound.
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