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Releasing consonant |
It is a syllable begins with a consonant, the consonant with which the syllable begins is called a releasing consonant. For example, in the world 'see' (/si:/), /s/ is the releasing consonant. |
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Arresting consonant |
if a syllable ends with a consonant, the consonant with which the syllable ends is called and arresting consonant). For example, in the syllable 'is' (/iz/), /z/ is the arresting consonant. |
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Phoneme |
A marginal element is the phoneme with which a syllable begins or ends. For example, in 'its' (/its/), /i/ is the initial marginal element and /s/ is the final marginal element. |
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Position of the soft palate during the production of a nasal sound |
While a nasal sound is one in which the soft palate is so lowered as to touch the back of the tongue in order to make the entire air pass through the nasal cavity, in a nasal sound the soft palate is lowered only to the extend in which it would allow the air stream to pass through both the oral and the nasal cavities. In English the three nasal sounds are /m/, /n/ /g/. In English there are no Nasalized sound . The language French has Nasalized sound. Such as the Nasalised vowel in 'bon' /b7/. |
