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Vowels and consonants are called segmentals - individual sounds into which words can be segmented. Phonemes are general sound categories that are distinctive in the language; e.g., /b/ and /p/ are considered different sounds in English, since bat is a distinctly different word from pat.
Contents
1 Phonemes
1.1 Wiki pages
1.2 Links / PDFs
- Minimal pairs page for English phonemes
- Pronunciation drills: Typical drills for teaching phonemes
- List of English phonemes for evaluation or self-evaluation
- Spelling-phoneme patterns
2 Consonants
2.1 Wiki pages
2.2 Links / PDFs
- Overview of English consonant system
- Stop consonants
- /f/ and /v/
- sounds /θ/ & /ð/
- spelling patterns
- /l/ and /r/
- Alveolar /z/
- Palatal consonants
- Consonant clusters
3 Vowels
3.1 Wiki pages
3.2 Links / PDFs
- Overview of vowel system
- Tense & lax /i/, /<small I</small /
- Lax vowel /æ/ cf. /ε/
- Long /ei/ & short /ε/
- Long & short /ou/, /υ/
- Tense & lax /u/
- Schwa and /ʌ/
- Tense and lax vowel alternations
- Comparison of American, UK, Australian vowels
4 Consonant - vowel interactions and morphology
4.1 Wiki pages
4.2 Links/PDFs
Morphology refers to word formation, e.g., by means of prefixes and suffixes; these often involve pronunciation changes and variant forms, such as multiple pronunciations of -ed and plural -s.
