3 features:• Manner• Place• Voicing
(Plosives)FricativesAffricates
Recap: Plosives
Plosives:
bilabialalveolar
velar(palatal)
labio-dental
dental
alveolar
postalveolar(palato-alveolar)
Places of articulation: fricatives
Fricatives
The following slides were made using Daniel Currie Hall’s website athttp://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~danhall/phonetics/sammy.html
Features:unvoicedbilabialstop
p
pipe
(Features:unvoicedbilabialfricative)
(Features:unvoicedbilabialfricative)
vamos
Features:unvoicedlabiodentalfricative
f
fine, life
Features:voicedlabiodentalfricative
v
very clever
Features:unvoiceddentalfricative
think
Features:voiceddentalfricative
ð
this
Features:unvoicedalveolarstop
t
tart
Features:unvoicedalveolarfricative
s
sea
Features:voicedalveolarfricative
z
zero
Features:unvoicedpostalveolarfricative
she, pressure
Features:voicedpostalveolarfricative
measure
Features:unvoicedglottalfricative
h
home
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Sibilants
Affricates
• There are no affricates in Icelandic, but if you’ve mastered the post-alveolar fricatives they should cause no problems
chess
Jess
fortis
lenis
Don’t forget to make a clear distinction between the fortis and lenis forms:
rich - ridge
larch – large
search – surge• not only with the voicing of ,
• but also by clipping caused by
Affricates