sábado, 22 de junio de 2013

PRONUNCIATION: CONSONANTS AND SEMIVOWELS i

CONSONANTS AND SEMIVOWELS

/b/            boca   /' boka/ English b in bin but without the aspiration that follows it

/β/      cabo  /’kaβo/ Very soft bilabial sound, produced with the lips hardly meeting.
            Ave  /’aβe/
/d/      dolor /do’lor/   English d in den but articulated with the tip of the tongue against the upper teeth rather than against the alveolar ridge. There is no aspiration.

/ð/     cada  /'kaða/  English th in rather

/f/    fino  /'fino/   English f in feat

/g/   gota  /'gota/   English g in goat

/ɣ̞/   pago  /'paɣ̞o/   Very soft continous sound produced in the throat like /g/ but without the sudden release of air

/J/  mayo  /English y in yet pronunced slightly more emphatically when at the beggining of an utterance.
There is some regional variants

/j/ tiene  /'tiene/  English y in yet. Only found in diphtongs and triphtongs.

/k/  cama  /'kama/ English c ub cap but without the aspiration that follos it.

/l/  lago  /'laɣ̞o/  English l in lid, without the vocalic resonance it often has in American English

/m/  mono  /'mono/   English m in most.

/n/  no   /no/ English n in nib

/ŋ/  banco /'baŋko/  English ng in song

/ɲ/  año  /Like gn in French soigné, similar to the ni in onion, pronunced with the tongue flat against the palate.




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