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Phonetics and Phonology (ENG)



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Lesson-05
ARTICULATORY PHONETICS-II

At the end of this section, the students will be able to
• RECOGNIZE and EXPLAIN various places and manners of articulation involved in the production of consonantal sounds.

Topic-025: Articulatory Gestures

In order to fully describe a sound, we need to know various actions made by articulators during the process of articulation. The articulators make gestures required for speech by moving toward other articulators to produce speech sounds. This movement is called articulatory gesture. Bearing all these terms in mind, let us go through the major articulatory gestures used in the production of English sounds
Bilabial: This sound is made with two lips (for example, p and b. The lips come together for these sounds.
Labiodental: This sound is made when the lower lip is raised to touch the upper front teeth (for example, f and vb Dental:b This sound is made with the tongue tip or blade and upper front teeth. For example, say the words thigh, thy and you will find the first sound in each of these words to be dental.
Alveolar: This sound is made with the tongue tip or blade and the alveolar ridge. You may pronounce words such as tie, die, nigh, sigh, zeal, lie using the tip of the tongue or the blade of the tongue for the first sound in each of these words (which are alveolar sounds.
Retroflex: This sound is produced when the tongue tip curls against the back of the alveolar ridge. Many speakers of English do not use retroflex sounds at all but it is a common sound in Pakistani languages such as Urdu, Sindhi, Pashto, Balochi and Punjabi.

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