A consonant sound is produced by closing the sound production system partly or completely. For a vowel sound, it is kept open.

What is the phonetic difference between consonants and vowels?

Well, perception is not a one-way street. As a native speaker, one may not represent phonology explicitly. There are native speakers, who are specialists in phonology, phonetology, phonetics: these guys can distinguish sounds more sophisticatedly

I've been struggling to notice the difference between these two consonants but as spanish speaker I'm so used to pronounce them as if they were only one sound. If I spoke fast, would it matter? I know the difference according to what

There is, I think, a difference between pronunciation and accent, though I am not quite sure what it is. Perhaps it is a question of degree. It is perfectly possible to pronounce words correctly but with different accents. Different accents may of

I think you're right on, Kooyeen. And thanks for the reply. I am a stickler in my pronunciation classes that students learn to say the -s (and -ed) endings correctly. Even though I do this, I know that native English speaking Americans rarely

I want to ask 2 questions about pronunciation first: 1) Do Americans say /use- d / or /use- t / in used to? 2) I saw Ann Cook wrote this in American Accent course: If the first consonant is voiced, the next one will be as well. If the

Dear Dusklight, Consider your sentence "I'm the firs t t o arrive", it doesn't matter if you pronouce the word first like firs , because you will pronounce the sound /t/ of the word to. This is called "prepare and link (according to my book)." If

Hi! The gurus here are going to kill me for this, but I believe that with elementary students the important thing is to teach the really different ending sound which is /id/ . The difference between /t/ and /d/ is slight and does not impair