Suprasegmental Features of Stress and Intonation in English
You can think of vowels and consonants as segments. These segments make up syllables. On top of syllables, there are …
You can think of vowels and consonants as segments. These segments make up syllables. On top of syllables, there are …
You may or may not have heard the term “tone sandhi” before. It involves how tones change in tonal languages. …
Language is weird and people can speak the same language and even the same words in different ways. If you …
When studying phonetics you may have heard the terms “strident” and “sibiliant.” Sometimes these words are used interchangeably, but they …
Speech production includes three main mechanisms. These are: Respiration Phonation Articulation In this article I hope to give you a …
Phonetics studies the physical properties of sound, as opposed to phonology which studies the abstract and mental representations of speech …
In order to understand articulatory phonetics, we first need to talk about the airstream used in English. English speech sounds …
Before reading this article I highly suggest that you read about the places of articulation. You don’t have to read …
Learning about the places of articulation is really a fundamental step before learning more about phonology and phonetics. Before continuing …
In order to really understand phonology and phonetics, you need to understand what the differences between a phoneme, a phone, …