In Ukrainian there are non-palatalized and palatalized consonant phonemes.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 567.

In the Ukrainian language there are short and long consonant phonemes.

Both Ukrainian and English consonant phonemes are classified according to the obstruction and according to the work of the vocal chords.

The number of consonant phonemes is not the same in the two languages.

The system of English consonant phonemes as compared with the system of Ukrainian and Russian consonant phonemes.

English consonants differ from the Ukrainian consonants in many points.

There are 24 consonant phonemes in the English language. In the Ukrainian language there are 47 consonant phonemes (16 of them are long).

These features of articulation are considered to be phonematically independent in the two languages.

Therefore we say that length of consonants is also phonematically an independent feature of articulation in Ukrainian. This feature of articulation does not exist in English, as there are no long consonant phonemes in the English language.

Therefore we may say that palatalization is also phonematically an in

dependent feature of articulation in the Ukrainian language. Palatalized consonant phonemes do not exist in English. Dark or clear variants of the English [l] depend upon the position of the sound in the word.

5.English voiceless plosive consonants [p], [t], [k] are aspirated, while there are no aspirated consonants in the Ukrainian language.

6. According to the active organ causing the obstruction,there are the following groups of consonants in the Ukrainian language labial (bilabial and labio-dental) and lingual (forelingual, mediolingual, backlingual). In the English language besides the above mentioned groups there exists a group of pharyngeal consonants to which English [h] belongs.

7. The distribution of English and Ukrainian consonant phoneme among the groups of consonants is also different.The Ukrainian group of forelingual consonants includes palatalized and long phoneme and the phonemes [Ц], [ДЗ]. In its turn the English group of forelingual consonants includes the phonemes [ ], [ ] which do not exist in the Ukrainian language. The group of English backlingual consonants includes the phonemes [k], [g], [ ], while in Ukrainian [ ] does not exist, but at the same time there are two additional Ukrainian backlingual constrictive consonants [Х], [Г].

8. There is also a difference between the phonematic system of English and Ukrainian consonants in the articulation of similar consonants, i.e. consonants united by some common feature of articulation.Thus, in pronouncing Ukrainian forelingual consonant the place of obstruction is generally nearer to the front upper teeth than in the corresponding English consonants. The Ukrainian [Т], [Л], [Н], [С], [З], for example, are dental according to the passive organs of speech, while the English [t], [d], [n], [s], [z] are alveolar, the Ukrainian [Р] is alveolar, the English [r] is post-alveolar, etc.