Documente Academic
Documente Profesional
Documente Cultură
2012-2013
Weeks 1/2.
Unit 1. Lecture 1.
Consonants
Overview
1. English consonants: The British English inventory
1.1. Plosives
1.2. Nasals
1.3. Non-sibilant Fricatives
1.4. Sibilant Fricatives and Affricates
1.5. Approximants
2. Summary and references
1.1. Plosives
• 6 plosive phonemes
6 plosives /p, b, t, d, k, g/
3 nasals /m, n, ŋ/
9 fricatives:
5 non-sibilants /θ, ð, f, v, h/
4 sibilants /s, z, ʃ, ʒ/
2 affricates (sibilant) /ʧ, ʤ/
4 approximants: /w, j, r, l/
2. Summary and references