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| Try this. Question: How many sounds do you hear in the word box? Answer: [a] [k] [s]. There are four sounds in all. In English the sounds [b] [a] [k] [s] are distinctive (they have different sounds) and they are contrastive, like this, [b][b]at "bat" [k]at "cat" [s]at "sat" [a]x "ox" [ae]x "axe" Change the sound and a new word results. That means, [a] [k] [s] are phonemes in English. Now let's try another word, say, sing. Question: How many sounds? Answer: [s] [I] [ng]. There are three sounds. Note, [ng] represents one sound. Phoneme test: sing sin cigg "cigarette" Change the sound and a new word results. Now try jumped. How many sounds do you hear? (Hint: try not to look at the word. Rely on your ears.) |
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