This is an instruction for audiobook, English Pronunciation, the American Way. English Pronunciation: The American Way (audiobook) Audiobook details 1. Narrated by John Byrnes, PhD 2. Total 33 files ( ≈ 12 min a file, ≈ 6 hours) 3. Verbatim narration of the e-book of the same title , authored by Nanhee Byrnes, PhD.
Gemination is concerned with pronouncing identical adjacent consonants between word boundaries. In other words, when one word ends with and the next word begins with the same consonant sound, we need a way to signal this. How to pronounce the twin consonants depends on the type of consonants. In fact, for the gemination purpose, consonants can be divided into three groups: continuous consonants, stops and affricates. Continuous consonants link to each other differently from stops and affricates because the air flows continuously with continuous consonants, unlike stops and affricates. Continuous consonants Continuous consonants are consonants for which air flows continuously through a constricted area of the vocal tract. When pronouncing continuous consonants, the air is never completely blocked by any part of the vocal tract. Continuous consonants include fricatives ( /f, v, θ, ð, s, z, ʃ, ʒ, h/), nasals (/m, n, ŋ/), and liquids (/l, r/). We can pronounce these sounds continuously.