Consonant

TH

Tongue

VOICELESS / /

Stick your tongue between the teeth and blow.

VOICED / / Stick your tongue between your front teeth,

just a little. And vibrate the vocal cords.

1. Voiceless / / Content Words: Content words are words that have meaning. They can be compared to function words, which are structural.

nouns, adjectives, adverbs

2. Voiced / / Function Words: Function words are the words we use to make our sentences grammatically correct. Pronouns, determiners, and prepositions, and auxiliary verbs are examples of function words.

verb + e / th + er

1. Voiceless – content words / /Bath – /bæθ / Faith – /feɪθ /Death – /deθ /

Thursday – /θərzdiː /Think – /θɪŋk/Thank – /θæŋk/

Birthday – /bərθdeɪ /Athletic – /æθˈletɪk /

2. Voiced – function words / /The – /ðə/This – /ˈðɪs/That – /ˈðæt/

Bathe – /ˈbeɪð/Clothe – /ˈkloʊð/

Together – /təˈgeðə/Father – /ˈfɑðər/Mother – /ˈməðər/

EXERCISES  Transcribe the following words:  With – thought – Either – weather – Math –  Transcribe the following words:  /ˈəðər/ – /ˈbreθ/ - /ˈnəθɪŋ/ – /ˈðoʊ/ - /ˈθriː/ -