Good afternoon Teachers, Parents and Students all over the globe. Welcome to my blog and language lab.
I sincerely apologize for my inability to insert a voice note (backup) for this lesson as it should be. I am promising you in anticipation of getting a good device that would aid that I'll do just that.
Having said that, I want to do a quick recap of yesterday's lesson which seek to examine some names of people which is often time abused by some speakers who have little or no knowledge about the sounds of English Language. The one that makes me sad is hearing the owner of the name also abuse or mispronounce their names as well.
The aim of this lesson is to expose these little mistakes which most speakers make when pronouncing some English names of people, while trying to show the correct way to pronounce those names.
In view of this, I urge you to please go through this lesson carefully and be willing open up your mind to learn, unlearn and or relearn. Remember that no one knows it all. Hence, there could be some interesting things you could learn from this piece. Happy reading.
Background Information
About four years ago while I was serving my fatherland as a corp member under the National Youth Service Corps, I was given a name by my Senior Secondary Two (SS 2) class in the School I was re-posted to in Delta State of Nigeria. They called me in the face - "Corper Obodo Oyinbo" which by translation means White-man corper. Of course that wasn't new to me because I have accumulated tons of similar names in the course of Teaching for over fifteen years (15 years) now.
Unimportant it may seem but with all humility, I wish to draw your attention that I am a graduate of English Language Education from the University of Uyo - Nigeria. My area of interest were Phonetics and Phonology, Morphology, Syntax and Stylistics. Of all these, I gave in my best to Phonology which is one of the things that puts me in this problem of accumulating names wherever I go to that is new.
Away from that, in my first class, the first student introduced herself as fate instead of Faith. I quickly called her attention to the correct pronunciation. And when I thought that others would take a clue, the second student introduced herself as ROOT.
Excuse me? I inquired that she recap what she said and she said that again root sir. I moved to the board and wrote the words:
ROOT
Root
Ruth
Roof
Roofed
Thus asking her which was her name. She of course changed to pronouncing Roof in the attempt to correcting herself. The class all bust into a long life session. I couldn't help but joined them, and after three minutes of uncontrollable laugh galore. I hushed them and that was were the class started with the topic.
DENTAL SOUND(S)
By the end of this lesson, the students, should be able to:
- identify the dental sounds.
- Pronounce the dental sounds.
- Write out word examples of dental sounds.
Introduction
There are about forty-four (44) sounds in English Language which is classified into Vowels and Consonants. Consonants are classified into voiced and voiceless sounds and are also describes using three parameters.
- Place of articulation
- Manner of articulation
- State of the glottis.
This word be a lesson for another day. However, today I want to look at dental sound(s) which is a consonant sound. There are three dental sound when describing consonant based on place of articulation. Hence, the word dental conveys a mental picture of the teeth. The phonetic symbol according to the International Phonetic Association - IPA that can be used to depict the dental sound is /θ/ and it's phoneme is often signaled in some words that begins or end with "th".
Examples of words with "th"
Ruth /ruːθ/
Faith /feiθ/
Path /pæθ/
Birth /b3:θ
Think /θɪŋk/
Through /θruː/
Thank /θæŋk/
In view of the above examples. The student ought to know that the correct pronunciation of that name is /ru:O/ and not root as she said.
I hope that you have learnt something new today. Thank you for stopping by.
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