In today's class, we talked about the manner of articulation, which is what we are doing with the shapes of our articulators (tongue, lips) to the airflow to create sound.
Stops: we stop the air, building up pressure,then release Fricatives: we close off the air enough to make a noisy friction sound Affricates: we stop, then release with a fricative Nasals: we close off all the air so it can't release from the mouth, instead it goes through the nose Liquids: we close off the air without enough to make a friction sound Glides: we move from one articulation to another quickly, almost like 2 vowels together Flap: we stop the air briefly but without building up any pressure Try some words: Stops: top, dog Fricatives: fifth, she’s, vision Affricates: judge, each, edge, chop Liquids: really, rare, Glides, why, you
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In today's class, we talked about American consonant sounds by looking at where they are made in the mouth. This is called placement.
Placement errors are one of the reasons speech sounds accented. If you are making sounds in a slightly different place in the mouth, your speech will sound different than a native American English speaker(for example some languages say "t" and "d" sounds with the tongue pressed against the back of the teeth, while American English we press the tongue against the alveolar ridge (the ridge on the roof of the mouth behind the teeth). Choose a few words with consonants from each of the places of articulation. Are some more difficult for you than others? What about moving from place to place? Bilabials: mom, people. web Labio-dental: five, vie Inter-Dental: the Alveolar: tiny, lot, says, not, don't Palatal: shoe, chew, judge, rich Velar: kick, gag, king, going Glottal, hi, he Mixed: beet, peek, wing, push, chip buttercup, popsicle, teeth, whenever In today's lesson, we continued to look at American English vowels. To see practice materials and resources for vowels, use the links to the right to see Vowel resources, or go to Day 7 of the challenge.
Try the following words with American /oʊ/: go, no, also, know, show, don’t, over Now, try repeated phrase practice: please don’t go I can’t go she didn’t go there (add your own phrases using "go") don’t do that don’t laugh don’t work too hard don’t tell me that (add your own phrases using "don't") In today's class, we looked at pronouncing American Vowels. We used the vowel quadrangle to look at vowel sounds in a new way, because vowels are spelled inconsistently in English.
Use the links below to view resources for learning the American Vowels: American Vowel playlist: In Day 6 of our 30-Day Accent Challenge, we're looking at pronouncing American R. You can watch the video above to see the live class, or use the resources below to help you with your American R.
Learning the American R sound: Go to Video Audio practice files for R: Go to practice American R playlist: Go To YouTube Playlist |
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