Approximant Sounds | r l w & j | Consonants | English Pronunciation
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- This video teaches you all you need to know about the 4 approximant sounds in English. All four sounds are voiced consonant sounds. First, we have /w/, a voiced bilabial velar approximant. Next up, we have /j/, a voiced palatal approximant. Both together, /w/ and /j/ are also often called semi-vowels or glides because they behave a lot like vowel sounds!
Then we have a look at /r/ and /l/. These two sounds can be quite confusing for many learners of English. Both are formed close to the alveolar ridge but there is one important difference: in /r/ there is no contact of the tongue to the alveolar ridge (the little bump behind your top teeth). However, with /l/ the tip of the tongue makes clear contact and the air is released past the side of the tongue through the mouth.
We look at typical spelling patterns and, most importantly, some typical minimal pairs for /l/ and /r/. At the end there is also a little test for you! Can you hear the difference between /l/ and /r/? Leave me a comment and let me know how you did on the test!
Chapters
0:00 Intro
2:27 Why are approximants not vowels?
3:33 The approximant sound /w/
5:53 The approximant sound /j/
8:17 The approximant sound /r/
11:10 The approximant sound /l/ & Differences between /l/ & /r/
15:35 Minimal Pairs for /l/ & /r/
17:40 Test
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Video on Minimal Pairs
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Video on The Phonemic Chart (vowels, diphthongs & consonants):
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Make video on allophones of approminants and it's environment description
Britan or american pronounciation???@@Lydia._.56
I’m studying phonology, I just came across your page because I have exam in the next few days and I find your videos so helpful. Thank you ma’am 😊
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Thanks, teacher your class has been an amazing experience, greetings.
Thank you for your wonderful videos! Giving me a lot of help with my Delta.
Thank you very much for your video, your way of explaining is very clear that I could understand very well the production of approximant sounds. An other important rule is that these approximant sounds become devoiced and a little bit frective when they are preceded by an aspirated sound, so they lose the quality of being approximant.
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Thank you for your clear and comprehensible pronunciation. I find it quite helpful as an ESL Educator, and Phonology Student at Grad School level.
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Thanks so much, i have been searching to find why h, r, w and y aren't vowels. But now i got the answer
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May I add this--beside letting the air passing on the sides of the tongue, the actual sound vibration is focused on the tip of the tongue and the alevolar ridge.
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American English has many instances of syllabic /r/, where the vowel signaled in writing goes unarticulated in favor of the postalveolar approximant /r/: word, hurt, turn, first. There are also some instances of syllabic /l/.
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The /r/ sound is so difficult for Spanish speakers! We produce it touching the alveolar ridge and it sounds stronger
Yes, it's true that Spanish speakers often pronounce the /r/ a bit strong, but don't worry too much about it. People will still understand you very well most probably. Sounds that are really important to get right for Spanish speakers are the difference between long and short vowel sounds because this can lead to great confusion when words are mispronounced.
@@BillieEnglish thanks for your answer! It's true, some vowels are really difficult for us. Specially the lax ones because in Spanish all vowels are tense. Also central vowels are mi nigthmare! I'm still learning to produce them. I'll continue watching your videos :)
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Kind teachers please make a video about long vowels diphthongs and triphthongs in closed syllable which followed by consonants!
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They are syllabic, just not as a rule in English. There are other languages that use l and r as the nucleus.
In American English, ‘r’ is a Post Alveolar Continuant Fricative n ‘l’ is Alveolar Continuant Lateral. Am I right?
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Hey! Great video but I have a doubt? I hope you can find time to answer it. As per the definition, there should be no contact when it comes to approximants. However, /l/ has the contact so why do we consider it as an approximant?
Another great question - you are really interesting in getting to grips with phonology! I love that! 👍💛
Ok, so ... by definition it's not quite correct that with approximants the articulators don't touch - because in some sounds they do (e.g. /l/)! The main point is that when they come close (or touch), there is *no* air friction, like there would be with fricatives (e.g. /f/, /s/, /z/ etc.) So they are kind of in between fricatives and vowel sounds.
I hope this helps - but keep those questions coming!
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Thank you so much!
just would like to confirm the pronunciation of fry. Is it common to pronounce like missing 'f' consonant at 19:07?
Hello Brayden! Thank you for your question. No, the /f/ should not be missing. I was experimenting with background noise cancellation on my mic because I live in noisy Barcelona and finding a time to film when it's quiet is a challenge - HOWEVER, in this video it seems the cancellation cut off the /f/ sound too :-( I am very sorry about that! I have since changed my mic to avoid this from happening again.
@@BillieEnglishThank you for your reply and effort!
Hello,
Thank you for the video again, R and L also belong to a family called "liquids" right?
Yes, correct! They are also called 'liquids'.
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Hi! I'm George. My English teacher called this l ( in final position) " metall l " Why?
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What about light and dark L?
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Hi John! I've got a video on light & dark l on my channel 😊. Have a look!
Hi I need help with my r’s
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What are the devoiced approximants😭?
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L is lateral sound😅
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'Sh' and 's' Sounds
Check out my video on the fricative sounds in English for an explanation on those two sounds :-)
Devoicing is what ??? Plz and when we put small symbol°
Voicing is when your vocal cords vibrates, devoicing is when you make the same phonemes but without vibrating your vocal cords, you use ° when there isn't a symbol for the unvoiced phoneme
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