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EnglishPronunciationforCommunication

APracticalCourseforStudentsofEnglish

By

WangGuizhen

FacultyofEnglishLanguageCulture

GuangdongUniversityofForeignStudies

ChineseEFLLearner’sDifficultiesintheLearningProcess02ConsonantsoftheEnglishLanguage01

Whyusephonemicsymbols?

ThealphabetwhichweusetowriteEnglishhas26lettersbut(British)Englishhas44sounds.Inevitably,EnglishspellingisnotareliableguidetopronunciationbecauseSomelettershavemorethanonesoundSometimeslettersarenotpronouncedatallThesamesoundmayberepresentedbydifferentlettersSometimessyllablesindicatedbythespellingarenotpronouncedatallQuestions:Howdoyoupronounceghinenough,throughandghost?(likefinfun,notpronounced,likegingot)Howmanysyllablesarethereinchocolate?

PhonemesLinguistsclassifythespeechsoundsusedinalanguageintoanumberofabstractcategoriescalledphonemes.English,forexample,has44phonemes,althoughthenumbervariesaccordingtothedialectofthespeakerandthesystemoftheclassification.Phonemesareabstractcategorieswhichallowustogrouptogethersubsetsofspeechsounds.Eventhoughnotwospeechsounds,orphones,areidentical,allofthephonesclassifiedintoonephonemecategoryaresimilarenoughsothattheyconveythesamemeaning.

DescriptionoftheEnglishconsonantsntscanbeclassifiedaccordingto1.thepointsrticulation2.themannersarticulation3.thestateo

1.?bilabial(twolips)2.?labio-dental(topteeth/bottomlip)3.?dental(tonguetip/topteeth)4.?alveolar(tonguetip/toothridge)5.?postalveolar(tonguetipormid/hardpalate)6.?palatal(tonguemid/hardpalate)7.?velar(tongueback/softpalate)8.glottal

MannersofarticulationApproximantsateralasalsffricatesricativestops(orplosives)EDCBAF

EnglishConsonants1.Stops/Plosives-Englishhassixburstsorexplosivesoundsproducedbycompleteclosureoft