bsounds. 4.Of all the speech organs, the tis the most flexible, and is responsible for varieties of articulation than any other. 5.English consonants can be classified in terms of manner of articulation or in terms of pof articulation. 6.When the obstruction created by the speech organs is...
These are some of the most common figures of speech in English, and you must have used them at least once, even if you are not a native English language speaker. These phrases are meant to emphasize the importance of something by using overexaggerated phrases. Two examples of hyperbole figur...
/t/ of “utter”、“letter ” in North American English. Trills颤音, where taps are repeated in rapid succession. 14 The double /r/ of Spanish "perro" is a trill. 2.3 2.3.1 Coarticulation协同发音 The variation that a speech sound undergoes under the influence of neighboring sounds has ...
Speech Sounds When we speak in English, we use about 44 different sounds. When we write in English, we use 26 letters (the alphabet A-Z). You notice that there are more sounds than letters, and so there are not enough letters to represent all the sounds. It's important to understand...
3. Divergence means the English spelling does not represent its pronunciation.Why?Reasons:1> Different letters may represent the same sound; 2> A single letter may represent different sounds. 3> Some letters do not represent any sound at all.4. IPA( International Phonetic Alphabet) is a ...
Alliteration refers to repeating consonant sounds right next to each other, which creates a memorable or melodic effect. “She sells seashells by the seashore.” 2Antithesis Antithesis is a literary technique that places opposite things or ideas next to one another to highlight their contrast. ...
ofspeechis the idea oflanguage. A language is the collection of symbols, sounds, gestures, and anything else that a group of people use to communicate with each other, such as English, Swahili, andAmerican Sign Language.Speechis actually using those things to orally communicate with someone ...
special alphabetic or other typographical characters to express the sounds of an actual spoken utterance in writing, with many European languages as examples. English uses alphabetic script to represent certain single type sound. For example, the sound which is written as sh in English can be expre...
Many of the vowel sounds in most dialects of English are diphthongs—e.g., the vowels of “out” and “ice,” respectively. Semivowels are sounds produced in the same manner as vowels but are used and perceived as consonants. Examples include the y in “yawn” and the w in “walk.”...
In English, voiced consonants may be illustrated by the initial and final sounds in the following words: “bathe,”“dog,”“man,”“jail.” The speech sounds produced when the vocal folds are apart and are not vibrating are called unvoiced; examples are the consonants in the words “hat,...