Phonetics

1. Introduction
to
Phonetics:
Consonants
Gokhale Education Society’s
S.M.R.K. B.K. A.K Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Nasik-5.
CC English (LL)
F.Y.B.Com. Sem I
Ms.Geetanjali Gitay
Assistant Professor
Dept. of English
CC English (LL)
F.Y.B.Com. Sem I
Unit 1

2. Introduction
•In the last presentation, we discussed :
1. What is Phonetics?
2. What are Phonemes?
3. Speech Event
4. Organs of Speech
5. Phonemes
6. Vowels (20): Pure Vowels(12) and Diphthongs (08)
7. Vowels in Transcription

3. Phonemic Chart

4. Consonants
• There are total 24 consonant sounds in English.
• Consonant sounds cannot be pronounced continually.
• Pronunciation of consonants involves closure of organs of speech.
• Phonemic symbols for consonants are as shown below:

5. Consonants in Transcription

6. Syllable
• A phoneme is the smallest unit in phonetics.
• Two or more phonemes form the next higher unit called the syllable.
• In each syllable there is one vowel sound. A single vowel sound can form a syllable but consonants without
vowels cannot form a syllable.
• A word may have one syllable. e.g. bit, kit, but, cut, put, book
• A word may have multiple syllables. e.g. Matter – ma-tter
Minimal – mi-ni-mal
Electricity – e-le-ctri-ci-ty
Better - be-tter
Maximum - ma-xi-mum
River -ri-ver
Account - a-ccount

7. Conclusion
In this presentation, we discussed :
1. Consonants
2. Phonetic Symbols used to Represent Consonants
3. Phonetic transcriptions of consonants used in words.
4. Concept of a Syllable

8. Text Content Source :
1. Spoken English : A Manual of Speech and Phonetics, Bansal R.K. and Harrison J.B., Orient Longman , (Second
Edition)(1991)
Image Source :
1. www.google.com