Phonetic

The phonetics of the letter
It's not the toys that are noisy - It's the boys!


What we might say is important. How we should say it is very important
as well.
The speech is a song. Between speeches, there's only talk of the practice.

The phonetic is the study of human being language's sounds.
The spoken language requires many features:
Pronunciation, stress, liking, rhythm andintonation.

The pronunciation refers to the voice and sound.
The stress emphasizes a syllable in a word or a word in a sentence.
Linking refers to connect words in the sentence soundly.
Rhythm is related to keeping the same time between stresses along
the sentence.
Intonation gives a tone to a speech like a surprise, happiness,
interrogation, etc.
This item is divided into:
.The phonetics of the letter and
. The phonetics of the word.

1. The phonetic of the letter:

The English alphabet contains 5 vowels and 21 consonants.
But the spoken English distinguishes 46 different sounds. 22 vowels
and 24 consonants.

To indicate the pronunciation with much precision, we have got to use
a special alphabet, which has a sign for each sound.
This is themost used in English:

1.1- Consonants:

13 consonants with a normal sound:

b d f g h k l m n p r t v
Examples:


Blue - door - floor - got - hospital - keep - light
- more - noun - put - regards - tea - voice

11 consonants with a particular sound:

Vowel Examples
/ θ/ think
/ð/ then
/s/ see
/z/ zoo, please
/w/ wait, why
/j/ young
/ŋ / song, rang, bank/ʤ/ just, edge
/ʧ/ child
/ ʒ/ vision, pleasure, measure
/ʃ/ ship, sugar


1.2- vowels:

Short vowels:

We have 7:


Vowel Examples
/ɪ/ bit, sit, fill
/e/ bed, less, head, any, guess, friend
/æ/ cat, apple, sat, sank, land, catch
/ɒ/ dog, stop, fond, wash, cough, watch, gone
/ʊ/ book, put, full, soot, could
/ʌ/ bus, mother, cup, fun, come, touch, blood
/ə/ an,until, condition, above


Long vowels:

We have 5:

Vowel Examples
/iː/ see, eat, feel, seize, deceive, these, people
/ɑː/ father, calm, class, laugh, heart, art
/ɔː/ born, talk, saw, law, ball, fall, warn, salt, taught, bore, door
/uː/ moon, shoes, soup, fool, use, move, fruit, new, true, beauty, who, two

/ɜː/ bird, girl, work, turn, heard, term, stern



Twovowels:(diphthongs)

We have 8:
Vowel Examples
/eɪ/ take, rain, way, grey, weigh, great, break
/aɪ/ fly, fine, light, buy, lie, high, bye, eye, find
/ɔɪ/ coin, boy, voice
/əʊ/ coat, rose, throw, no, ago, sold, though, own, sew, both, most, owe
/aʊ/ now, house, sound, town, drought
/ɪə/ here, near, real, deer. dear, fierce
/ɛə/or /eə/ chair, where, care, fair, tare, wear, their
/ʊə/tourist, poor, cure, fewer, cruel, sure


Three vowels:

We have 2:

Vowel Examples
/aʊə / flower, hour
/aɪə/ fire, quiet


Keep in mind: j a c q

• "j" is the sign of y (e. g. young, ... ),
•
• "a" is not used alone,
•
• "c"and "q" are not written as signs. They are related to the letter k.
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Practice:

1-consonants:

/ʃ/
The sound [ʃ] is found in words with:
sh - ti - ci - ssi - si - sci - ss - s - ch - ce - xi .


Examples:


Machine- sheets - shine - shell - sugar - sure - social - ancient -
pension - issue - shrimp - anxious - conscious -
delicious - ocean - discussion - luxurious - equation - appreciate -
...

sh is always pronounced /ʃ/.


ch is almost always pronounced /ʧ/.Except:


Chicago and chef with the sound /ʃ/


Chemist, ache, stomach, character with the sound /k/

/s /
Examples:

Lease - price - process - advice - loose - choice - promise - ...

/z /
Examples:

Advise - lose - rise - poss[z]ess[s] - cousin - husband - those - scissors -
exam - example - exit - amazing - says - choose - chose - ...

/ʒ/
Examples:

Television -...