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  2. Pronunciation of English th - Wikipedia

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    Children with a lisp, however, have trouble distinguishing /θ/ and /ð/ from /s/ and /z/ respectively in speech, using a single /θ/ or /ð/ pronunciation for both, and may never master the correct sounds without speech therapy. The lisp is a common speech impediment in English. Foreign learners may have parallel problems.

  3. Alveolar consonant - Wikipedia

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    Nonetheless, there are a few languages that lack them. A few languages on Bougainville Island and around Puget Sound, such as Makah, lack nasals and therefore [n] but have [t]. Colloquial Samoan, however, lacks both [t] and [n] but has a lateral alveolar approximant /l/. (Samoan words written with t and n are pronounced with [k] and [ŋ] in ...

  4. Lisp - Wikipedia

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    Take for example, correction of an "S" sound (lisp). Most likely, a speech language pathologist (SLP) would employ exercises to work on "Sssssss." [clarify] Starting practice words would most likely consist of "S-initial" words such as "say, sun, soap, sip, sick, said, sail." According to this protocol, the SLP slowly increases the complexity ...

  5. Naming conventions of the International Phonetic Alphabet

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    The implosives have hook tops: ɓ hook-top b, ɗ hook-top d, etc., as does ɦ hook-top h. Such an extension at the bottom of a letter is called a tail . It may be specified as left or right depending on which direction it turns, as in ɳ right-tail n , ɻ right-tail turned r , ɲ left-tail n , ʐ tail z (or just retroflex z ), etc. Note that ŋ ...

  6. 100 girl names that start with 'Z' - AOL

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    There are both classic and trendy options for girl names that start with “Z.”

  7. Speech acquisition - Wikipedia

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    The 2 primary phases include Non-speech-like vocalizations and Speech-like vocalizations. Non-speech-like vocalizations include a. vegetative sounds such as burping and b. fixed vocal signals like crying or laughing. Speech-like vocalizations consist of a. quasi-vowels, b. primitive articulation, c. expansion stage and d. canonical babbling.

  8. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Also commonly seen are the braces of set theory, especially when enclosing the set of phonemes that constitute the morphophoneme, e.g. {t d} or {t|d} or {/t/, /d/} for a conflated /t/ and /d/. Braces have a conflicting use to delimit prosodic transcription within the Voice Quality Symbols, which are an extension of IPA used in extIPA, but are ...

  9. Mama and papa - Wikipedia

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    Mama and papa use speech sounds that are among the easiest to produce: bilabial consonants like /m/, /p/, and /b/, and the open vowel /a/.They are, therefore, often among the first word-like sounds made by babbling babies (babble words), and parents tend to associate the first sound babies make with themselves and to employ them subsequently as part of their baby-talk lexicon.