ustify"> 2. Keep the lips in the position for the following vowel, eg reach (spread lips), root (rounded lips).
. Push the air through the mouth so that you could hear a smooth glide.
[s] is a fortis, voiceless, alveolar fricative, as in so, pass, nice, science, axe.
[s] is a fortis, voiceless, alveolar fricative, as in saat clock, sadece only, sari yellow.
[t] is a fortis, voiceless, apical stop, as in take, Thames, Tliomas; it is spelt in the inflection-ed after fortis consonants other than [t], eg jumped, looked. It is aspirated when initial in a stressed syllable, as in take, attend, obtain, try, and nonaspirated after [s], as in stone. The place of articulation is most often alveolar but it may be dental when a dental fricative follows, as in at this. In RP and most other accents the place of articulation is postalveolar when / r / follows, as in true.
[t] is a fortis, voiceless, alveolar, plosive stop, as in tahmin an estimate, guess tahmin etmek, to guess takdim a presentation. It is aspirated when initial in a stressed syllable, as in tehdit threat, tehdit etmek, to threaten, to menace tehlike danger.
[t, d] occur in word initial, word medial and word final positions
[t] - spelt «t, tt, th, ed», eg take, attend, Thomas, jumped, put, takip a following.
[d] - spelt «d, dd», eg dog, date, middle, leader, mad, raised, ada island.
[t, d] are occlusive, plosive, forelingual, apical, alveolar; [T] is strong and voiceless, [d] is weak and voiced, in final position it is partly devoiced.
[k, g] occur in word initial, word medial and word final positions, [k] - spelt «k; c; cc + a, o, u; qu; ch », eg kite, card, accord, conquer, stomach, kadar as ... as, kara black; [G] - spelt «g; gg; gh; gu », eg garden, giggle, ghost, guard, gitmek to go .. 1. The complete obstruction is made by the tip of the tongue firmly pressed against the middle of the alveolar ridge.
2.The soft palate is raised and the air coming into the mouth is trapped for a short time. Then it breaks the obstruction with a slight explosion.
3.The vocal cords do not vibrate when [t] is formed. For [d] they are drawn together and vibrate when it occurs before vowels or in intervocalic positions, eg done, ladder, tedavi medical treatment.
4. The breath effort for [t] is very strong, for [d] it is weak.
Recommendations.
1.Raise the back of the tongue to the soft palate so that you can feel a firm contact of them. Push the air from the lungs breaking the obstruction with a slight popping noise.
2.Make the sound [k] strong and aspirated, eg cool, calm.
The Turkish consonants [k, g] are produced in a similar way, but the breath effort for the Turkish [к] is not so strong as for the English [k] which is aspirated. In word final position only [k] is heard, eg barmak a finger, while the English [g] in final positions is partially devoiced, dog, dialogue.
[v] is a lenis labio-dental fricative, as in voice, of, nephew. It is fully voiced in medial positions b...
