Tuesday, 9 July 2013

T 7 /h m n ŋ / (9 - 12)



9)  / h /        (glottal, fricative, voiceless) 

        hat, hand, hen, hard, help, hot, home, half, hate, harass, house,
        horse, horror, harm, hungry

#huge, human, humus, humid, humiliate, humour,                        24

# / h / links with the palatal-glide / j / to form a syllable-releasing consonant cluster in the words as indicated.
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10)  / m /      (bilabial, nasal, voiced)
       
man, mat, mark, melon, must, more, most, moon,
       
common, domain, comment, domestic, formal,
       
harm, alarm, palm, jump, comb, some, room, roam,

11)  / n /      (lingua-alveolar, nasal, voiced)

no, name, none, never, nor, normal, November,
       
banner, manner, tenor, tennis, sonic, sonar, tunnel
       
an, fan, pan, gain, rain, brain, train, drain, sprain, on

12)  / ŋ /       (lingua-velar, nasal, voiced)


ng – bring, ring, fling, sting, string, sing, spring, drawing,  
       
nk – ink, pink, rink, drink, sink, wink, tank, plank, bank,        

The words that ended in ‘ng’ always have / ŋ / speech sound and / g / sound is always omitted.  On the other hand, when the words ended in                  
‘nk’, they always have / ŋk / speech sound.                          

Note:  All the nasal sounds are voiced.

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