Transcribe the following words, pronounce them with aspiration where necessary. Single out the words which contain the phonemes with the loss of aspiration.
2. What are the main criteria for classification of consonants?
3. What is aspiration?
4. What are the cases when aspiration is lost?
5. What consonants do we call ‘semivowels’?
UNIT 4
Study the rules of pronouncing vowels in different types of syllables.
The main terms of the unit:
syllable, speech unit, sound sequence, prominent sound, peak of a syllable, nucleus, syllabic sound, sonorant, syllabic consonant.