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Week 5: Contrastive Words Practice

Wednesday, February 9, 2011


Consonant Contrasts

The following chart contains words with fricative sounds. Read each word carefully and producing each sound according to its internal features.


List 1: /f/ vs. /v/

fan

van

ferry

very

fault

vault

few

view

rifle

rival

safer

saver

half

have

leaf

leave


List 2: /t/ vs. /ϴ/

taught

thought

team

theme

tree

three

true

through

tent

tenth

debt

death

boot

booth

mat

math


List 3: /s/ vs. /z/

sink

zinc

sip

zip

deceased

diseased

racing

raising

niece

knees

ice

eyes

place

plays

price

prize


List 4: /s/ vs. /ʃ/

sip

ship

sew

show

classes

clashes

class

clash

bass

bash

Rus

rush







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