CLASSIFICATION OF SPEECH SOUNDS

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The ugly urchin uttered an ultimatum

Old Oily Ollie only oils oily autos.

U [ u ]

put push bush pull bull

U [j u: ]

Tune mute tuna student pupil computer tulip mute student duty cute pupil tulip sue dude huge nude

Перед буквами r и l эта буква читается [u: ]

Rude prudent lunatic flu influenza luminous rule

U [ /\ ]

Cut but nun nuts must punk gun sun bun bunch mum duck chunk chuck shut flush dun sum mud gum slum

The work of the speech organs necessary for making speech sounds is called articulation. According to the specific character of their articulation speech sounds are divided into vowels and consonants.

In the articulation of vowels: In the articulation of consonants:

1. the flow of air passes freely (meets no obstruction);

2. the flow of air is weak;

3. all organs of speech are tense;

4. voice prevails over noise;

5. vowels are syllable forming sounds.

1. the flow of air meets

an obstruction;

2. the flow of air is strong;

3. the active organs of speech are tense only in the place of obstruction;

4. noise prevails over voice;

5. consonants are not syllable-forming sounds, as a rule.

There is an intermediate type called sonants (sonorants). They have features common to both vowels and consonants. A consonant is characterized by an obstruction, however, the air passage is wide. In producing sonorants voice prevails over noise. Some English sonorants [l] [m] [n] can form a syllable when they are preceded by a consonant and if no vowel sound follows,

e. g. people [¢pi-pl], seldom [¢sel-dm], taken [¢tei-kn]

The phonemeis the smallest language unit that exists in speech as such speech sound which is capable of distinguishing one word from another word, or one grammatical form of a word from another grammatical form of the same word.

Transcription is a set of symbols representing speech sounds.

Answer the following questions:

1. What is articulation?

2. Which speech sounds do we call vowels (consonants)?

3. What is a sonorant?

4. Which English sonorants can form a syllable and what are the necessary conditions?