By Consonants, Phonics

Hi Kooyeen, You're way more into phonics than I am, though as a choral conductor I'm always screeming at singers to sustain the vowel portions of the words, since the consonants (generally) cannot be sung. I'm not really going to address your question. I just wanted to caution...

Hi, As Kyoeen says, the difference is that /p/ is voiceless whereas /b/ is voiced. Both are made with the two lips. It is your vocal folds that vibrate, not your "throat", when you produce voiced sounds, and in English the voiced sounds often have devoiced allophonic variants in which case the...

Yeah Anita, now I've seen where it is! Thx CalifJim wrote: -- What's a bigamist? -- A lot of fog. Hahahaaa Bot / BopBod / Bob The unvoiced consonants have the effect of clipping the vowel sound before the mouth forms the final consonant; the voiced consonants allow voicing to...

I don't think it's called intonation. It's allophonic vowel length: vowel phonemes are realized as longer vowel allophones before voiced consonant phonemes in the coda of a syllable. This is found in all dialects of American English. Some American dialects have some phonemic vowel distinctions...

Hello SpongeBarb,although I am not an English native speaker, I can help you, because -phile is indeed a suffix in many European languages. It comes from the Greek and originally means friend or someone who loves. The modern meaning is what you guessed : someone who likes/loves, amateur,...

I'm not sure how detailed an explanation you might want to give to such a young child. Perhaps the best way is through example, that is, by grouping according to rhyming patterns. Don't teach exceptions until the basics are mastered. "cap", "sap", "rap", "tap", "nap" ... are one group. ...