Concepts of Voiced and Unvoiced sounds

 Voiced and Unvoiced Sounds


Voiced Sounds

Voiced sounds are sounds generated by the vibration of the vocal cords.

Consonants

Example

Vowels

/b/

blue

 

 

  

All vowels

/d/

day

/g/

garden

/v/

voice

/z/

crazy

/ʒ/

treasure

/m/

mother

/n/

name

/l/

love

/r/

car

/w/

way

/j/

yellow


Unvoiced Sounds 

Unvoiced sounds are sounds generated without the vibration of the vocal cords.

Consonants

Example

/p/

happy

/t/

time

/k/

key

/f/

coffe

/s/

snake

/ʃ/

shy

/θ/

both

/h/

house




Sounds Pairs

Unvoiced

Voiced

/p/

pat

/b/

bat

/t/

town

/d/

down

/k/

cat

/g/

go

/v/

van

/f/

fan

/z/

zip

/s/

sip

/θ/

think

/ð/

this


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