The notoriously difficult phonology of the Polish language has always caused much trouble and confusion for neighbouring nations. But what are the absolute hardest words? Germans look at Polish and ...

Electropalatographic data on the frequency of occurrence of assimilatory processes in Catalan C1##C2 sequences, where ## is inserted at the boundary between two consecutive words, reveal that ...

How do you pronounce words that begin with lots of consonants? What is a consonant cluster? It's a word that has multiple consonant sounds together. Look at the consonants at the starts of these words ...

1 Department of German Studies, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States 2 L2+ Sound Learning Lab, Division of German, Russian, Arabic ...

The place of articulation refers to where the articulators (teeth, tongue, lips or glottis) make contact in the vocal tract to create consonant sounds. There are eight places of articulation for ...

Abstract: This paper indicates that three onset consonant clusters are preserved in Phu Quy dialect, including [k h l-],[bh-],[bj-]. These clusters are not allowed in modern Standard Vietnamese, and ...

Help develop phonics and literacy skills in early childhood learners (ages 3-8) with this simple matching game that teaches and reinforces consonant blends and digraphs. Understanding how to decode ...

Consonants are non-vowel speaking sounds. A consonant sound is created by a total or partial restriction of the airstream, caused by a constriction of our speech organs. A consonant is any letter of ...

A diphthong consists of a set of any number of vowels that together sound like two vowels, in contrast to a monophthong, which sounds like one vowel, and a triphthong, which sounds like three. The ...