Phonetics - 26-3-2025

Uvular: /ɣ/ is a voiced sound produced at the uvula, and it is popular in French and Arabic, but it does not exist in English.

Glottal: /ʔ/

/h/ is voiceless and it occurs in words like house, him, her, hinder, harsh.

/ɦ/ is voiced and it occurs between two vowels: ahead

Glottal sounds are produced at the glottis.

Labiovelar: /w/

This sound is voiced and it has two places of articulation.

*lips ==> it involves rounding your lips.

*Velum ==> it involves raising the back of the tongue towards the velum.

It occurs word initially, word medially, but it rarely occurs word finally (Wisdom, wait, want, wonder, wonderful, weak, week, weep, wood, would, win, window, while, word, world, quick, somewhere, forward, quiz, question, reward, however, quiet, quit).

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Velar: are the type of sounds that are produced as a result of an articulatory movement that involves raising the back of the tongue towards the velum (Soft Palate).

{k, g, x, ŋ}.

/k/ is voiceless, and it occurs word initially, word medially and word finally. (King, kind, cat, camp, character, quiz, macaroon, ticket, books, contact, boxing, quick, lick, like, bike, click, make, bake, take).

/g/ is voiced and occurs word initially, word medially and word finally.

Game, go, good, government, ground, garden, garage, groom.

Integration, figure, figurative, figs, brags.

Big, leg, egg, brag, drag, wig, rig.

/x/ this sound is voiceless and it occurs in one Scottish word only (loch ==> lake).

/ŋ/ this sound is voiced and it occurs word medially and word finally, but it does not occur word initially (King, sing, long, wrong, ring, playing, making, eating, think, pink, ink, tank, bank, thank, monk, funk).

* when /n/ is followed by a /g/.

* when /n/ is followed by /k/

Sings, thinks, monks.