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Unvoiced and Voiced Consonants Explained
If we look at the table above, can we see that each voiceless consonants has a voiced counterpart. Voiced means that the vocal cords are vibrating while producing these sounds. Testing whether a sound is voiced or voiceless is possible. If we touch the the larynx commonly know as the Adam's apple with our hand while we produce these sounds separately, we can feel it vibrating whenever we pronounce a voiced sound. This can be illustrated if we pronounce /s/ and /z/ directly after one another. While pronouncing /s/ we cannot feel any vibration but while we are articulating /z/ we can feel our larynx vibrating. In order to test it properly, it is important that we do not pronounce the sounds the way they are pronounced in the alphabet, that is /es/ for /s/ and /zed/ for /z/ but that we really only pronounce the consonants otherwise we would feel the vocal cords vibrating because of the surrounding vowel sounds. To hear theses sounds using an interactive phoneme chart and watch some videos that illustrate this please click here to return to the pronunciation web page Click here
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