This document contains several tongue twisters and examples of phonetic speech patterns intended to demonstrate phonetic concepts like place and manner of articulation. It includes tongue twisters involving words like pepper, piper, witch, watch, thought, fellow, weather, flea, and fly. The document also provides phonetic transcriptions and definitions of linguistic terms like phoneme, manner and place of articulation.

1. Howmuch do youknow? How are soundsproduced? Which are some of theorgansinvolvedto produce speech? Whyisitimportanttoknowhowsounds are articulated? How are soundsclassified? What is a phoneme? A phoneme is the smallest contrastive unit in the sound system of a language. How many phonetic sounds are there in the IPA? 44

5. Description of Places of Articulation

7. Why is important to know how sounds are articulated? Understanding the process and anatomy of speech can assist teachers in teaching ELL learners.

8. Sounds can be voiced or voiceless. Voiced sounds require vibration of the muscles in the larynx that form the vocal bands. The space between these bands is called the “glottis.”

9. Speech results from a complex interaction between several systems in the body. The brain, the sense of hearing, the lungs, larynx, vocal tract, and tongue all work together to produce the sounds of the English language.

10. Manner of articulation Place of articulation

11. Bilabial sounds: p-b Alveolar sounds: t-d Velar sounds: k-g PLOSIVES

15. Palatal semi-vowel: j

17. Readthedescriptions and writethesound Approximant and palato- alveolar sound, the tongue is held behind the alveolar ridge (not touching). Voiced A palatal approximant sound. The tongue is in the position of a close front vowel (similar to /I/). The soft palate is raised and the sound glides quickly to the following vowel /ə/. Voiced A lateral sound, a partial closure is made by the blade of the tongue against the alveolar ridge. Air is able to flow around the sides of the tongue. Voiced

18. 4. A plosive bilabial sound, total closure is made using both lips. The soft palate is raised and is unvoiced. Plosive velar sound, closureismadebythe back of thetongueagainstthesoftpalate, it’sunvoiced. Affricatepalato alveolar sound. Thetonguetip, blade and rimscloseagainstthe alveolar ridge and sideteeth. Thefront of thetongueisraised and whenthe air isreleasedthereis audible friction, it’svoiced Fricativeglottalsound. Air passesfromthelungsthroughthe open glottis, causing audible friction, unvoiced

19. Phonemic Alphabet The English Consonants

20. CONSONANTS Voiceless Voiced pen, copy, happen back , baby, job tea, tight, button day, ladder, add key, clock, school get, giggle, ghost thing, author, path this, other, smooth fat, coffee, rough, photo view, heavy, move soon, cease, sister zero, music, buzz ship, sure, national pleasure, vision church, match, nature judge, age, soldier

21. CONSONANTS Nasals Lateral more, hammer, sum light, valley, feel nice, know, funny, sun Approximants ring, anger, thanks, sung right, wrong, sorry Glottal wet, one, when, queen hot, whole, ahead yet, use, beauty, few

23. Seven knights are ready for the Joust! AIL UCK ASH TAR EAT EAR ARK LATE ABLE IP

24. Get ready for the Joust! OP AP ACK IG ICK UG OCK EST

26. /'læ__gwɪdʒ/

27. /əˈblaɪ__d/

28. /'ædvərtaɪ__ɪŋ /

29. /'læ__tər /

30. /kləʊ__z/

31. /kən'klu:__ən/

32. /'grænˌfɑ:__ər /

33. /__ɪs'fɔ:rtʃən /

35. A pickled pepper picked a peckOf Peter Pipers.A peck of Peter PipersA pickled pepper picked.If a pickled pepper picked a peck of Peter Pipers,Where is the peck of Peter PipersA pickled pepper picked?

39. SHE SELLS SEA SHELLS ON THE SEA SHORE , BUT THE SEA SHELLS THAT SHE SELLS, ON THE SEA SHORE ARE NOT THE REAL ONES

40. If you understand, say "understand" . If you don't understand, say "don't understand". But if you understand and say "don't understand". How do I understand that you understand? Understand!

41. I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won't wish the wish you wish to wish.

42. A sailor went to sea to see, what he could see. And all he could see was sea, sea, sea.

43. If two witches were watching two watches, which witch would watch which watch?

44. I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn't the thought I thought I thought. If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought, I wouldn't have thought so much.

45. Once a fellow met a fellow In a field of beans. Said a fellow to a fellow, "If a fellow asks a fellow, Can a fellow tell a fellow What a fellow means?"

46. We surely shall see the sun shine shortly. Whether the weather be fine, Or whether the weather be not, Whether the weather be cold Or whether the weather be hot, We'll weather the weather Whatever the weather, Whether we like it or not. Watch? Whether the weather is hot. Whether the weather is cold. Whether the weather is either or not. It is whether we like it or not.

47. A flea and a fly in a flue Said the fly "Oh what should we do" Said the flea" Let us fly Said the fly"Let us flee" So they flew through a flaw in the flue

48. If you tell Tom to tell a tongue-twister his tongue will be twisted as tongue-twister twists tongues.