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ARTICLES RELATED TO Pronunciation of English th - A note on the spelling | | | |  Pronunciation of English th - A note on the spelling: Encyclopedia II - Pronunciation of English th - A note on the spellingThough English speakers take it for granted, the digraph <th> is in fact not an obvious combination for a dental fricative. The origins of this have to do with developments in Greek.
Proto-Indo-European had an aspirated /dʰ/ which came into Greek as /tʰ/, spelled with the letter theta. In the Greek of Homer and Plato this was still pronounced /tʰ/, and therefore when ...
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| | | | Pronunciation of English th - A note on the spelling: Encyclopedia II - Pronunciation of English th - Distribution in Modern English The vast majority of words in English with 'th' in them have the voiceless sound, and almost all newly created words follow this. Exceptions:
A small number of common function words beginning with 'th-' have /ð/ (all others beginning with 'th-' have /θ/). The words in this group are:
5 demonstratives: the, this, that, these, those
2 personal pronouns each with four forms: thou, thee, thy, thine; they, them, their, theirs
7 adverbs and conjunctions: there, ...
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| | | | Pronunciation of English th - A note on the spelling: Encyclopedia II - Pronunciation of English th - Acquisition problems Children generally learn the less marked phonemes of their native language before the more marked ones. In the case of English-speaking children, /θ/ and /ð/ are often among the last phonemes to be learned, frequently not being mastered before the age of five. Prior to this age, many children substitute the sounds [f] and [v] respectively. As British and American children begin school at five, this means that many are learning to read and write before they have sorted out these sounds, and the infantile pronunciation is frequently reflected in their spelling errors: ve fing for the thing. For small ...
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| | | | Pronunciation of English th - A note on the spelling: Encyclopedia II - Pronunciation of English th - Realisation in non-standard Englishes In some areas such as London, many people realize the phonemes /θ/ and /ð/ as [f] and [v] respectively (th-fronting). Although stigmatized as typical of a Cockney accent, this pronunciation is fairly widespread, and in at least one case has been transferred into standard English as a neologism: a bovver boy is a thug, a "boy" who likes "bother" (aggro).
Many speakers of Hiberno-English use a voiceless dental plosive /t̪, d̪/ (still usually distinct from alveolar /t, d/) ...
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| | | | Pronunciation of English th - A note on the spelling: Encyclopedia II - Pronunciation of English th - Phonetic realisation In standard English, both in Britain and America, the phonetic realisation of these phonemes shows less variation than for many other English consonants. Both are pronounced either interdentally, with the blade of the tongue resting against the lower part of the back of the upper teeth and the tip protruding slightly (though less prominently than for the corresponding sound in Spanish) or alternatively with the tip of the tongue against the back of the upper teeth. These two positions may be free varients, but for some speakers they are comp ...
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| | | | Pronunciation of English th - A note on the spelling: Encyclopedia II - Pronunciation of English th - Development up to Modern English A number of developments have occurred since Old English, with the result that the distinction has once again become phonemic:
In early Middle English times, a group of very common function words beginning with /θ/ (the, they, there, etc.) came to be pronounced with /ð/ instead. Possibly this was a sandhi development; as these words are frequently found in unstressed positions they can sometimes appear to run on from the preceding word, which may have resulted in the dental fricative being treated as though it were word-intern ...
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| | | | Pronunciation of English th - A note on the spelling: Encyclopedia II - Pronunciation of English th - Distribution in Old English In Germanic, /ð/ and /θ/ were separate phonemes; in Old English the original /ð/ became /d/, but a new [ð] appeared as an allophone of /θ/. In Old English, the phoneme /θ/, like all fricative phonemes in the language, had two allophones, one voiced and one voiceless, which were distributed regularly according to phonetic environment.
[ð] (like [v] and [z]) was used between two voiced sounds (either vowels or voiced consonants).
[θ] (like [f] and [s]) was spoken in initial and final po ...
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