Analytical Fourth [-Sixth] Reader
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ISBN13: 9780217776271
Paperback|9780217776271
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PHONIC ANALYSIS. LESSON I. An Elementary Sound is produced, from its beginning to Its close, without any change in the position of the organs of speech. In pronouncing the word feet, we produce three elementary sounds, ?sounds that cannot he divided. The first, which we call the sound of f is formed by continuous blowing while the lower lip is placed lightly against the edges of the upper front teeth; the second, which is called long e, is produced by singing, while the tongue, slightly advanced, and curved so as to be highest in the middle, is raised nearly to the roof of the mouth; and the sound of t is formed by first pressing the end of the tongue against the inner gums of the upper front teeth, compressing the breath above it, and then suddenly allowing the forced breath to escape in a slight gust. Pronounce each of the following words, and then utter separately whichever of these three sounds it contains: cat, me, cuff, laugh, sheaf, sphere, tea, eat, reefed. Which of the three, if any, do you hear when you pronounce of ? bed ? beak ? team ? tot ? thee ? thank ? elk ? enough ? What four ways do you observe of representing the sound of f, in sheaf, cuff, laugh, sphere ? Name three other words to illustrate each of these four ways. In what two ways is the sound of t represented in eat and reefed ? Lesson II. Pronounce mete, mead, meed, bier, seize, pique, key, paean. In each of these words is heard the sound of long e; yet no two of the modes of representing it are alike. This sound isusually represented in the keys to English spelling-books and dictionaries by e. The short horizontal mark over the e is called a macron.] We will use e whenever we wish to represent this sound; and these eight words will, in our mode of representing, be written ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217776271 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217776272 |
| Weight | 1.70 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.18 In |
| List Price | $22.81 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 530 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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