Iraqi EFL learners often mispronounce the two affricate sounds in English: the unvoiced affricate /t/ and the voiced affricate /d/ owing to a lack of exposure to English as a foreign language. In this paper, the researcher investigates two problems, which are vital ...
Define affricate. affricate synonyms, affricate pronunciation, affricate translation, English dictionary definition of affricate. n. A complex speech sound consisting of a stop consonant followed by a fricative; for example, the initial sounds of child a
The English sounds spelled "ch" and "j" (transcribed [tʃ] and [dʒ] in IPA), German and Italian z [ts] and Italian z/ƶ [dz] are typical affricates. These sounds are fairly common in the world's languages, as are other affricates with similar sounds, such as those in Polish...
This study presents an examination of the acoustic characteristics of some speech sounds. Measurements are reported for a number of acoustic properties of speech across a number of types of variability, and the effect of this variation i... PC Shinn - [s. n.] 被引量: 6发表: 1985年 ENGLI...
ofthesesounds. Thepronunciationof/f//v/ (page24) Description: /f/-voicelesslabio-dentalfricative /v/-voicedlabio-dentalfricative puttingyourtopteethonyour lowerlipandblowingair throughyourteeth.(上齿紧挨下唇, 然后将气流向外挤出) /f/ feastfistfetchfatfirstfoot ...
Although the English listeners showed a reduced sensitivity to the contrast, there was no effect due to order of presentation of the stimuli in either adult group. The finding of an asymmetry in the infants suggests that infants' perceptual narrowing for speech sounds may be a more complex ...
Children between 10 and 14 years old identified sounds along a continuum of fricative to affricate sounds (cha–sha continuum), using a novel automated learning rise time identification task. Those with higher dyslexia likelihoods (measured by the Dyslexia Screening Test – Secondary), and poor ...