An Introduction to French Pronunciation
An Introduction to French Pronunciation
An Introduction to French Pronunciation
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100 The Consonants in Detail: (I) S<strong>to</strong>ps<br />
14<br />
14.1 <strong>Introduction</strong><br />
The Consonants in Detail:<br />
(I) S<strong>to</strong>ps<br />
14.1.1 <strong>French</strong> has what can be considered, with a fair<br />
amount of justification, as the same six s<strong>to</strong>ps (see 6.3.1) as<br />
English, viz.:<br />
(i) the voiceless and voiced bilabial s<strong>to</strong>ps, /p / and /b/;<br />
(ii) the voiceless and voiced dental (or, in English, alveolar –<br />
see 14.4.2) s<strong>to</strong>ps, /t/ and /d/;<br />
(iii) the voiceless and voiced velar s<strong>to</strong>ps, /k/ and /g/.<br />
14.1.2 However, though the two languages have the same<br />
inven<strong>to</strong>ry of phonemes in this respect, and though anyone<br />
who uses the English s<strong>to</strong>ps when speaking <strong>French</strong> will usually<br />
be unders<strong>to</strong>od without difficulty, there are several significant<br />
differences in the way <strong>French</strong> and English s<strong>to</strong>ps are articulated,<br />
so much so that an English s<strong>to</strong>p is rarely if ever identical<br />
with its <strong>French</strong> equivalent.<br />
14.2 Mode of Articulation (General)<br />
14.2.1 The utterance of a s<strong>to</strong>p normally involves three<br />
stages, viz.: