The most important CONSONANT in English
Dr Geoff Lindsey
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Business Inquiries: [email protected] Hi! I want to share the fascination and fun of speech, language and accents, and I'm so grateful to anyone who feels able to support this work via my Patreon. I studied at University College London and got my PhD at the University of California Los Angeles. I've taught at universities including UCL, Edinburgh and Cambridge, published research in many areas, and worked as a forensic analyst. I've given invited lectures and workshops around the world. I wrote the influential 'English After RP' (Palgrave Macmillan), and my blog contains over a hundred audio-illustrated articles. I'm co-editor of the free searchable online pronouncing dictionary CUBE. I've also worked in film and TV as a screenwriter and director. I wrote the screenplay and arranged the music (performed by Lang Lang) for the animated fantasy Magic Piano, which was shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination.
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Secure your privacy with Surfshark! Enter coupon code DRGEOFF for an extra 3 months free at https://surfshark.deals/drgeoff Secrets of what I consider the most important consonant in English, the various ways it's made, and how it differs from other language. 0:00 Introduction 1:40 Important meanings 3:05 Important endings 4:32 Loudness differences 5:00 Surfshark 6:12 UCL's anechoic chamber 7:24 Spectrograms 9:16 Awkward combinations 9:48 months 11:12 Assimilation: howzat 11:52 TH-fronting 13:07 English and Spanish 14:05 English and Japanese 15:57 Articulation: reality check 18:39 The alternative: lips! Thanks to: Gordon Mills of Psychology & Language Sciences, UCL Hernán Ruiz for help with Spanish Prof. Masaki Taniguchi for help with Japanese Animation of vocal tract by Speech Graphics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYwk07QM4rc British National Corpus http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/
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