New Consonant Symbols

/ð/, /θ/, /ʃ/, /ʒ/, /tʃ/, /dʒ/, /ŋ/, /j/, /ʔ/

/ð/

Voiced '“th”

• Tongue goes inbetween teeth

• 1 of the 2 sounds represented by the graphemes th

• Can feel the buzz on your throat when produced

• EX: thick, thud, bath

• Fricative, voiceless, interdental

/θ/

Greek letter theta

• Voiceless “th”

• Tongue goes inbetween teeth

• No buzz felt on throat when produced

• 1 of the 2 sounds represented by the graphemes th

• EX: these, mother, the, bathe

• Fricative, voiced, interdental

/ʃ/

“sh” sound

• There are multiple letters and letter combos that can make this sound

• EX: sugar, show, anxious, machine, ocean, passion

• Fricative, voiceless, palatal

/ʒ/

Used infrequently

• 1 of the last sounds children learn to make

• EX: pleasure, lesion, vision, rouge

• Fricative, voiced, palatal

/tʃ/

“ch” sound

• Other graphemes can represent this sound besides just ch

• EX: chop, which, cello

• Affricate, voiceless, palatal

/dʒ/

“soft g” sound

• Usualluy spelled with a j and sometimes a g

• EX: judge, gym, age, joke

• Affricate, voiced, palatal

/ŋ/

Used whenever n + g are next to each other

• Also used in place of the n when n + k are next to each other (the k stays)

• EX: sing, rank, tongue, think

• Nasal, voiced, velar

/j/

“yuh” sound

• Usually respresented by the letter y

• EX: yes, yellow, music, yesterday, cube

• Glide, voiced, palatal

/ʔ/

Glottal stop

• Airstream is cut off at the glottis (space btwn vocal folds)

• A dialect variation

• Heard in “uh-oh”

  • It’s the pause

• Can be pronounced when saying “cur-tain” or “moun-tain”

• Stop, voiceless, glottal