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Linguistics

1. Speech sounds can be classified into two major classes: consonants and vowels. We can tell them apart from the difference in articulation. Consonant sounds are produced with constriction on the air flow through the velum and are voice or voiceless, while vowel sounds are made with no constrictions on the air flow and are usually voiced. An exception for voiceless vowels for example is “tanoshikatta,” where the “i” is a devoiced vowel.

English vowels (a, e, i, o and u), are produced by the height of tongue (high, mid or low), back, central or front position of tongue, tenseness of the lips (tense or lax) and roundedness of lips (rounded or un-rounded). However to produce the Japanese vowels (a, i, u, e and o), only the height of tongue and back central or front position determines which vowel is produced, for instance, low and central makes the “a” sound and high and back makes the “u” sound in Japanese.

To produce consonant sounds, there are two types of......


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