The phoneme /d/ is a dental, that is, the teeth are
used to produce this sound. The phoneme /t/ is also a dental,
but, importantly, it must be aspirated. Aspirated phonemes
produce small breaths of air when they are sounded.
Play the sounds below. Some sounds that are difficult for Korean
speakers are contrasted.
Did he take the time?
Did he take the dime?
Sung
Song
Peach
Beach
Check-Up: Match each audio clip to the correct image.
Tenth/Tent
Right
Wrong
Time/Dime
Right
Wrong
Toe/Doe
Wrong
Right
Drunk/Trunk
Wrong
Right
Cot/Cod
Right
Wrong
Can you say this?
Tiny Tim's sandwich really tasted very much worse than Tina's sheep head soup.
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Len said that there is much to learn about the English language.
