English Pronunciation Clinic Week 1: Phonemes Multimedia Study Guide Produced by: Charles Copeland A For EDUC-8347: Designing Instruction for eLearning Dr. Darci Harland Video 2: The Consonants

The Consonants The English alphabet has 21 consonants B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, W, X, Y, Z The 24 English sounds are written like this /b, d, f, g, h, dZ, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t, v, w, j, z, S, Z, tS, T, D, N/

The Consonants Only 16 IPA consonant phonemes match the English alphabet There are no symbols for c, q, x, and y The /j / phoneme = consonant ‘Y’ Why? ‘C’ makes many different sounds ‘Q’ and ‘X’ consist of two sounds ‘Y’ is both a vowel and consonant

Overlap Consonants ‘B’ = /b/ like in bat ‘D’ = /d/ like in dog ‘F’ = /f/ like in fish ‘G’ = /g/ like in gun ‘H’ = /h/ like in horse ‘K’ = /k/ like in kite (cat) ‘L’ = /l/ like in lion ‘M’= /m/ like in mat

Overlap Consonants ‘N’ = /n/ like in net ‘P’ = /p/ like in pig ‘R’ = /r/ like in run ‘S’ = /s/ like in sun ‘T’ = /t/ like in tiger ‘V’ = /v/ like in van ‘W’ = /w/ like in water ‘Z’= /z/ like in zoo

‘New’ Consonants ‘Y’ = /j/ like yellow ‘TH’= /T/ like thing ‘TH’ = /D/ like that ‘SH’ = /S/ like shoe /Z/ like beige ‘NG’ = /N/ like ring ‘CH’ = /tS/ like cheese ‘J’ = /dZ/ like jam

Revie w A phoneme is the sound which is made when spoken There are 44 common phonemes in English Each phoneme only makes one sound There are 24 consonant phonemes Only 16 are the same as the English alphabet.

Go to the next Study Guide Week 1: Phonemes All images in the power point were found using the insert online pictures function with the creative commons image search option which is a feature of Microsoft PowerPoint Phoneme information from Celce-Murcia et al. (1996) Video 3: The Vowels