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Speech Sounds: Vowels and Consonants in Communication

Explore the world of speech sounds, vowels, and consonants. Learn how these sounds combine to create syllables and words. Discover the criteria for describing vowel sounds, including height and tenseness/laxness. Enhance your knowledge of phonetic symbols.

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Speech Sounds: Vowels and Consonants in Communication

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  1. SPEECH COMMUNICATION

  2. Speech sounds consist of vowels and consonants which if combined will result to syllable. Words may be formed in a single syllable or multiple syllable • The set of symbols that represent the sounds of speech are called phonetic symbols. Speech sounds refer to phonetic. • Generally, speech sounds fall into two groups: vowels and consonants.

  3. VOWEL SOUNDS • are produced through a free outward flow of breath CONSONANT SOUNDS • are produced when there is obstruction of the flow of breath.

  4. VOWEL SOUNDS

  5. CRITERIA FOR DESCRIBING VOWEL SOUNDS NOTE: Linguists also describes vowels in terms tenseness/laxness

  6. HEIGHT – how high or low the tongue is NOTE: Linguists also describes vowels in terms tenseness/laxness

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