AND CONSONANT PHONEMES

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 601.

ARTICULATORY TRANSITIONS OF VOWEL

THE ARTICULATORY BASIS.

Lecture 7

Basic positions for the articulation basis of the English and Russian languages.

The notion of articulatory transition.

3. Peculiarities of the CC, CV, VC, VV articulatory transitions in English and in Russian.

4. Unstressed vocalism.

The number of articulatory positions and movements typical of a given language is called articulatory basis.

Sounds of different languages may be of the same type, but unlike articulatory; thus, English and Russian [t] is of the same type, and identical systematically, but different as to their articulatory basis.

The articulatory basis for English consonants includes a) apical-alveolar position of the tongue, b) interdental position, c) glottal position – all of these unlike Russian. Others, i.e. back-velar position of the tongue and bilabial lip position are partially similar to Russian. Thus, the sounds [k], [g] are similar, but not [ŋ]; also [p], [b] are similar to Russian but not [w]. In contrast to Russian the English articulatory basis is characterized by a greater energy of fortis consonants, by prolongation of nasal sounds.

The articulatory basis for English vowels consists of two basic positions of the tongue: front and back and the transition from one to another. The tenseness in the articulation of the long vowels also belongs here. Differences in the articulatory basis between languages together with systematic differences are the source of mistakes for foreign language learners (see the previous lecture).