Final /s/
A. Tongue Twister
Tongue twisters brings people back to childhood days trying to recite a tricky rhyme or phrase as fast as possible without tripping over the verbal challenges and hurdles lurking within these tongue-tying sentences. By combining the effects of alliteration (repetition of a sound), particularly of similar but not identical sounds, with a phrase designed such that it is made very easy to slip, these sentences and poems can be guaranteed to provide us with lots of fun and laughter. Tongue twisters also serve a practical purpose in practicing pronunciation. English tongue twisters may be used by foreign students of English to improve their accent, actors who need to develop a certain accent, and by speech therapists to help those with speech difficulties.
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Sally sells seashells by the shiny sea shore
So she can see the shimmering silver ships
In sunshiny summers she strolls along the sea shore
Shoelessly splashing somersaults while she skips
So she can see the shimmering silver ships
In sunshiny summers she strolls along the sea shore
Shoelessly splashing somersaults while she skips
B. Articulation and Demonstration
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If a word ends in the letter 's' (e.g. plural noun or verb in the third person), there are three ways to pronounce this 's' - /S/, /Z/ and /IZ/.
Type one sound /s/
Placement: The tip of the tongue is close to the gum behind the top teeth
Manner: the final 's' should be pronounced with air pushed out between the top of your tongue and your top teeth
Voice: without using the vocal chords/ voiceless (the sound made by a snake or gas escaping from a pipe).
Type one sounds are used if the word ends in the following sounds:
Type one sound /s/
Placement: The tip of the tongue is close to the gum behind the top teeth
Manner: the final 's' should be pronounced with air pushed out between the top of your tongue and your top teeth
Voice: without using the vocal chords/ voiceless (the sound made by a snake or gas escaping from a pipe).
Type one sounds are used if the word ends in the following sounds:
Standard Phonetic Symbols/p//t//k//f/ /θ/
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Example Wordsstops, shipshits, petsattacks, brickslaughs, coughsmaths. moths |
Type two sound /z/
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Placement: the tip of the tongue is close to the gum behind the top teeth.
Manner: air flows between the tongue and the gum.
Voice: /z/ is voiced (place hand on throat to feel the vibration)
T
Standard Phonetic Symbols/b//d//g//v//D//l//m//n//N/any vowel sound |
Example Wordsgrabs, robslids, rodspigs, dogsloves, leavesbreathes, latheshills, failscomes, tramsearns, burns, earns, burnssongs, paintingsplays, employees, flees, news |
Type three sound /iz/
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