Consonants and vowels

M.A

  • Plossive: Stop air. Let it go suddenly.
  • Affricatives: Stop air. Let it go gradually
  • Fricative: Let air pass through with friction.
  • Nasal: Let air out of your nose.
  • Lateral: Air goes round tongue.
  • Approximant: Nearly touching.

P.A

  • Bilabial: Put both lips together.
  • Labio dental: Use tongue and bottom lip.
  • Dental: Use tongue behind top teeth
  • Alveolar: Touch bump behind teeth with tongue.
  • Palato alveolar: Between.
  • Palatal: Hard bit of the roof of the mouth.
  • Velar: Touch roof of mouth (the sofft
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Inter language

  • Interlanguage: a system that has structurally intermediate status between the native and TL.

falls between the TL and the NT and it is based on the best attempt of learners to provide order and structure to the linguistic stimuli surrounding them.

  • Learners succeed in establishing closer and closer approximations to the system used by native speakers by a process of trial and error.

Brown, Douglas B. 1994



Interlanguage

  • Interlenguaje: systematic knowledge of an L2 which is independent of L1 and TL.

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The organs of speech

the diaphragm

- muscle

-below the stomach

-helps the porcess of breathing

 The trachea (windpipe)Imagen

 A pipe / tube / passage for the air.

- It has a protective function for the respiratory system and the body in general.

- It's made of bones and cartilages.

- The rings are reddish, beige.

The larynx

- It's made up of cartilages:Imagen

a. Cricoid cartilage (base)

--ring like

b. Thyroid cartilage

--shield like

--the thyroid and the vocal cords are inside

c. Arytenoids cartilages (or arytenoids)

help the

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