Good American Speech

according to rule arch back vowels beauty beginning book word vowels breath group broad transcription CHAPTER combined consonant sounds diphthongs diphthongs in group dots fricative continuant front teeth front vowel given glide glottis Greek half long hard palate important indicates the sound International Phonetic Alphabet intonation group Klinghardt's last sound lengthened long vowels lower jaw meaning mid vowels mouth narrow transcription pause Phoenician Phoenician Alphabet phonetic alphabet phonetic letters pitch Place of articulation plosive produce pronounced pronunciation represent resonance science of phonetics sentences Sən soft palate speak speaker Specimen words speech organs speech sounds spoken language stop-plosive teaching tion to-day tone transliterated unaspirated Unimproved Roman Alphabet unstressed upper gums upper teeth vibration vocal cords voiced consonant voiceless vowel or diphthong vowel sounds weak forms weak vowel WILLIAM DWIGHT WHITNEY William Tilly writing written