v thanks to: daniel currie hall danhall/phonetics/sammy.html

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Thanks to: Daniel Currie Hallhttp://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~danhall/phonetics/sammy.html


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Remind yourself about approximants:

• Fricatives – turbulent airflow

• Approximants – laminar airflow

Approximants

laminar flow

Fricatives

turbulent flow

Remind yourself about tuhe diference beteen

Icelandic and English v ....

Features:unvoicedlabiodentalfricative

f

fine, life

Features:voicedlabiodentalfricative

v

very clever

Review: f and v

• Labio-dental fricatives, f and v • One point to remember is that the Icelandic

LETTER f is often used to represent the SOUND v. This is not so in English - f is f, and v is v. So for instance the words life and live, leaf and leave, are quite different in English - remember there is a tendency in "Icelandic English" to pronounce them the same:

• Remember - different vowel length, too!.

from web-pagehttp://www.hi.is/~peturk/KENNSLA/02/TOP/fric.html#labden

Review: f and v

• Labio-dental fricatives, f and v • Make sure your f is unvoiced. Another point to

remember is that English v is a much STRONGER sound than Icelandic v, which often almost disappears in words like próf and prófa. English v is LABIO-DENTAL: bottom lip FIRMLY against top teeth. Keep the top lip out of the way, otherwise you'll make it sound like w

• And make sure you're not losing it in words like over and clever.

from web-pagehttp://www.hi.is/~peturk/KENNSLA/02/TOP/fric.html#labden

Back to w...

• w is a bilabial approximant with secondary velar articulation.

• Icelanders have problems distinguishing between v and w. There is no w in Icelandic, and yet, to English ears, Icelanders always seem to have w in words like 'very', 'revolve'. Why is this?

from web-pagehttp://www.hi.is/~peturk/KENNSLA/02/TOP/jw.html#w

Back to w...

• English v is a much STRONGER sound than Icelandic v - it's a fricative, while Icelandic v is an APPROXIMANT, like English w

• English v is LABIO-DENTAL (bottom lip agains top teeth: show your top teeth!) while w is BILABIAL (both lips).


Back to w...

• w has secondary velar articulation - while the lips are making the 'w' shape (rounding), the back of the tongue is making a velar approximant - vey much like the g in 'ógurlega' .


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