Lecture 2: ENGLISH CONSONANTS

Worksheet to print & bring to class:

Study the overview of English consonant phonemes (and the cue to the exercise below) with their descriptions; don't forget to have a look at the special sound 'glottal stop'.

PRACTICE

An excellent website to check your theoretical/practical knowledge of individual phonemes & their symbols is the following one, run by University College London:

http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/johnm/flash/flashin.htm

Just to double check you can look at the key below.

Self-study 

English Phonetics and Phonology (1994, 2009):

• voicing and consonants 

• fricatives and affricates 

• nasals and other consonants

• (+ Written exercises)