Category Archives: Consonant Sounds

It's Connected Speech Club 19!

It’s Connected Speech Club 19!

The latest edition of Connected Speech Club is here!

There was great excitement today in Connected Speech Club with the World Premiere of our brand new lesson about VC Connections. Check it out!

We also strayed into reduplicatives – rhyming words, like ‘lovey-dovey’ and ‘bye bye’, many of which have VC connections.

It is well worth a watch!

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The 8 Voiced and Unvoiced Consonant Pairs in English

The 8 Voiced and Unvoiced Consonant Pairs in English

Of the 48 individual phonemes (sounds) in English, there are 25 consonant sounds 15 voiced and 10 unvoiced. A consonant sound is voiced when the vocal cords vibrate while making it; a consonant sound is unvoiced when the vocal cords are still while making it. There is no sound, apart from the sound of air moving through the mouth, tongue, lips, and teeth.

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