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  2. Pronunciation of English th - Wikipedia

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    In standard English, the phonetic realization of the two dental fricative phonemes shows less variation than many other English consonants. Both are pronounced either interdentally, with the blade of the tongue resting against the lower part of the back of the upper teeth and the tip protruding slightly, or with the tip of the tongue against the back of the upper teeth.

  3. Th-fronting - Wikipedia

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    Th-fronting is the pronunciation of the English "th" as "f" or "v". When th -fronting is applied, [θ] becomes [f] or [ɸ] (for example, three is pronounced like free) and [ð] becomes [v] or [β] (for example, further is pronounced like fervour). (Here "fronting" refers to the position in the mouth where the sound is produced, not the position ...

  4. Dental fricative - Wikipedia

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    Dental fricative. The dental fricative or interdental fricative is a fricative consonant pronounced with the tip of the tongue against the teeth. [1] There are several types (those used in English being written as th): Voiced dental fricative [ð] - as in the English this, [ðɪs]. [2] Voiceless dental fricative [θ] - as in the English thin ...

  5. Non-native pronunciations of English - Wikipedia

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    Pronunciation of consonants. Difficulty with dental fricatives /θ/ and /ð/. These may be instead fronted [f v], stopped [t̪ d̪] or hissed [s̻ z̻]. Speakers may pronounce word-initial r as a guttural r pronunciations or a trill. These often sound to English speakers as /h/, leading to confusion between ray and hay, red and head, height and ...

  6. Voiceless dental and alveolar plosives - Wikipedia

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    The voiceless dental plosive can be distinguished with the underbridge diacritic, t̪ and the postalveolar with a retraction line, t̠ , and the Extensions to the IPA have a double underline diacritic which can be used to explicitly specify an alveolar pronunciation, t͇ . The [t] sound is a very common sound cross-linguistically. [1]

  7. Voiced dental fricative - Wikipedia

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    The voiced dental fricative is a consonant sound used in some spoken languages.It is familiar to English-speakers as the th sound in father.Its symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is eth, or ð and was taken from the Old English and Icelandic letter eth, which could stand for either a voiced or unvoiced (inter)dental non-sibilant fricative.

  8. English phonology - Wikipedia

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    The following table shows the 24 consonant phonemes found in most dialects of English, plus /x/, whose distribution is more limited. Fortis consonants are always voiceless, aspirated in syllable onset (except in clusters beginning with /s/ or /ʃ/), and sometimes also glottalized to an extent in syllable coda (most likely to occur with /t/, see T-glottalization), while lenis consonants are ...

  9. Old English phonology - Wikipedia

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    The fricative phonemes /f θ s/ had voiced and voiceless allophones.The voiced allophones [v ð z] were used when the fricative was surrounded on both sides by voiced sounds (between vowels, between a vowel and a voiced consonant, or between voiced consonants) and immediately preceded by a syllable with some degree of stress [6] [7] (e.g. eorðe ('earth') /ˈeo̯rθe/ [ˈeo̯rðe], fæþm ...