Italian Consonants
The circumstance in which this consonant is pronounced as [z].
What is the letter “s” when intervocalic?
This symbol is used after the first vowel in a diphthong.
What is a colon?
The sound produced when another vowel follows the letters “i” or “u”.
What is a glide?
This syllable is typically stressed in Italian.
What is the penultimate syllable?
This word is transcribed as [ðʌ] in IPA.
What is “the”?
This consonant is either pronounced as [dz] or [ts].
What is z?
This vowel is closed at all times except when preceding “lemoner plus another consonant”.
What is unstressed “e”?
What is [a]?
Stop-plosive consonants that create a less aspirate sound in Italian than in English.
What are dry consonants?
The IPA symbol for the achlaut in German diction.
What is [x]?
The sound and letters that create the symbol [ɲ].
What is gn?
These vowels are open when next to another vowel.
What is stressed “e” and stressed “o”?
The letters “i” and “u” in Italian diction.
What are weak vowels?
A mixed vowel in both French and German that combines the vowels [i] and [u].
What is [y]?
This is how the letters qu are transcribed in IPA.
What is [kw]?
This vowel is open when preceding “gli”, a consonant and a glide, or final and marked with an accent.
What is stressed “o”?
This sound is created when the letters Gli appear together.
What is [ʎ]/turned y?
This consonant is silent in Italian, but may effect the pronunciation of some consonant and vowel combinations.
What is h?
The symbol used to notate a glottal in German.
What is [?]?
When preceding i plus another vowel, these consonants make the “i” silent.
What are g, c, and sc?
The syllabic stress that makes both “e” and “o” open.
What is the anti-penult?
In these words, one does not follow the typical rules in which “i” and “u” turn into glides when followed by another vowel, but one pronounces the vowel combination as two separate syllables.
What are two-to-three letter words?
The letter N followed by a [g] or [k] in Italian is usually pronounced as [ŋ]. An exception occurs when this letter combination occurs at the beginning of a word and n is pronounced as [n].
What is in-?
The special glide in French.
What is turned h/[ɥ]?