ainly in vowels, the consonants are more or less the same wherever English is spoken. So if your vowels axe not perfect you may still be understood by the listener, but. If the consonants are imperfect there may be some misunderstanding.sentence «Wl y--nv-t-mt-th-pt-?» «Will you invite me to the party?» is easy for understanding even if all the vowel letters would be left out. But if we leave all the consonant letters out; «-I-ou i - i-e-e-o - e-a - y» it is impossible to make any sense out of it. Thus we see that there are good reasons for beginning the course of pronunciation with consonants.would like to find similarities and differences between English and Turkish consonant systems.
) First we would like to examine some similarities between English and Turkish consonant sounds.
[b] is a lenis bilabial stop in English. It is fully voiced in positions between voiced sounds, as in labour, symbol, rub out, while in initial and final positions it is partially or completely devoiced, as in big, blow, rib, ebb. Note mute in limb, thumb, comb, etc.,-and debt, subtle, doubt.
[b] is a plosive labial stop in Turkish. It is fully voiced in positions between voiced sounds, as in baba father, beraber together, while in initial and final positions it is partially or completely devoiced, as in bin a thousand, bir the number one. There is no mute in Turkish.
Stops are bilabial [p, b], produced with both lips pressed together; forelingual, apical alveolar [t, d], produced with the tip of the tongue against the teeth ridge; backlingual, velar [k, g] produced with the back part of the tongue against the soft palate.
[p, t, k] are strong or fortis as they are pronounced with more muscular energy and a stronger breath effort than [b, d, g] which are weak or lenis.
[b, d, g] may be fully voiced in word initial position before a vowel as in bag, dog, got, gelmek to come, bati west and durak bus stop or in intervocalic positions as in rubber, leader, eager. In these cases the vocal cords are drawn together and vibrate.word final position they are partly devoiced: [b. d, g] as in rob [rob], bed [bed], log. [P, t, k] are voiceless as the vocal cords are kept apart and do not vibrate.
[p, b] occur in word initial, word medial and word final positions, [p] spelt «p» as in pin, pane, capable, lip, para money, kapi door, [b] spelt «b, bb» as in big, rubber, sob, tabii naturally, ba? head.
[p, b] are occlusive, plosive, bilabial; [P] is strong and voiceless, [b] is weak and voiced, in final position it is partly devoiced .. 1. The lips are firmly kept together.
2.The soft palate is raised and the air coming into the mouth stops for some time and then breaks the obstruction with a slight explosion.
The vocal cords do not vibrate when [p] is produced. For [b] they are tense kept together and vibrate when [b] occurs before vowels or in intervocalic positions, eg begin, rubber, bayan a lady.
The breath effort is very strong for [p], for [b] it is weak.
Recommendation. Press your lips together and push the air through the mouth breaking the obstruction made by the lips.
[t? ] is a fortis, voiceless, palat...
