Practical phonetics. Lesson 1

MAIN TERMS
Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds (e.g. word and sentence stress, sounds, syllabic structure and intonation).
A sound is a speech realization of a letter.
A letter is a written character of the language

ALPHABET

CONSONANTS
A consonant is a sound in the spoken language which is pronounced with an obstruction of the vocal tract such as lips, tongue and teeth.
There are twenty-one consonant sounds:

Consonants which produce two or three sounds:

The consonant combinations which give one sound:

Consonant sounds
[p], [b], [t], [d], [k], [g], [f], [v], [θ], [ð], [s], [z], [sh], [zh], [h], [ch], [j], [m], [n], [ŋ], [l], [r], [w], [y];
pen, be, ten, do, Kate, go, feel, very, thin, this, so, zoo, show, beige, he, cheese, just, me, no, sing, live, red, we, yes;