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The effect of Environment on consonant quality/ Fricative and Affricate
The effect of environment: pedagogical priorities
PRESENTING THE FLAP ALLOPHONES TO STUDENTS
PRESENTING INITIAL AND MEDIAL CONSONANTS TO STUDENTS
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Positional variation
Which variation is often not obvious to native speakers?
100
Aspiration
What is the additional significant feature of voiceless stop consonants in English?
100
Including references to the many cases
How can we teach grammatical forms of flap?
100
Hold a light piece of paper in front of your mouth
This is an example of the concept of aspiration in initial stop consonants to students
200
Two
In how many groups can the English affricates be divided?
200
Voiced stop
What are the consonants that are not aspirated?
200
They normally voice and flap any medial
how do american people pronounce the /t/?
200
Arabic, French, Spanish and Italian
Can you mention 3 languages that initial voiceless stops are not aspirated?
300
Twenty-five
How many characteristics have been discussed in relation to distinct consonant sounds as they are produced in isolation?
300
Voiceless stop
What are the consonants that are aspirated?
300
It produces a sound more like a quick /d/ than /t/
What does a quick tongue flap produce?
300
Bumper, baking, etc...
Can you mention some examples of medial stop consonants?
400
The vowel length
What is the relationship between voiced and voiceless fricatives and affricates?
400
Minimal pairs endings
What can be hard for learners to distinguish in stop consonants?
400
To locate the flap /r/ in a text
Can you mention an analysis activity for intermediate or advanced students?
400
Tan, Cave
Pat is an example of aspiration in initial consonant, Can you mention another one?
500
Syllable initial, syllable final, intervocalic, initial clusters.
What are the consonants that can potentially occur in five different environments?
500
art – heart ear - hear and– hand
Speakers of French, Hebrew and many other languages have problems producing and distinguishing pairs of word like air - hair, what is another example?
500
"What are they doing?" is an information gap activity in which students work in pairs
Can you mention an activity to practice it in a less controlled manner?
500
Identify stressed vs unstressed syllables
What do students need to be aware in order to determine which medial voiceless stops are aspirated and which are not?