Describe the English fricatives with examples.

Describe the English fricatives with examples.

 A fricative is a consonant sound that is created by constricting the vocal tract, causing friction as the air passes through it. The nine English fricative sounds:

1.      v sound /v/

2.      f sound /f/

3.      voiced th sound /ð/

4.      unvoiced th sound /θ/

5.      z sound /z/

6.      s sound /s/

7.      zh sound /ʒ/

8.      sh sound /ʃ/

9.      h sound /h/

often do not correlate exactly with any particular sound in an English as a Second Language/English as a Foreign Language student's native language. This causes substitutions to occur, and those substitutions often have significant differences from the intended English sound.

There are three major points that beginner ESL/ELL students should understand about fricative sounds:.................................................................................................................................................

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