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Dental fricative

From Teflpedia

A dental fricative (/ˈdentəl ˈfrɪkətɪv/), commonly known as a TH sound, is a fricative (a type of consonant sound) made with the tongue pushing up against the top front teeth.

There are two dental fricative phonemes in the standard English phonemes; a voiced Th phoneme (which is a voiced sound) and an voiceless Th phoneme (which is an unvoiced sound).

As phones, these are the voiced dental fricative and the voiceless dental fricative.

These are typically represented in writing by the digraph {th}.

Pedagogy[edit | edit source]

These are the only consonant sounds that are not part of the English core consonant sounds necessary to competently speak English, and so excluded from the Lingua Franca Core.

Th-alveolarisation, Th-fronting, and Th-stopping are common realisations of this sound by learners as respectively (1) /s/, & /z/ (2) /f/ and /v/ (3) /t/ and /d/. Meanwhile, people may lisp sibilants to dental fricatives.