MATRIC NUMBER: SUBJECT: INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS

The Place Of Articulation : DENTAL Hindi, English & French

dental consonant tongue against the upper teeth/t/, /d/, /n/, and /l/ A dental consonant is a consonant articulated with the tongue against the upper teeth, such as /t/, /d/, /n/, and /l/ in some languages. MEANING

HINDI dental consonants dental consonants - the tongue touches the upper front teeth retroflex consonants retroflex consonants - the tip of the tongue is curled upwards against the palate, and when the tongue is released from this position it gives the Indian retroflex sound.

The nearest approximations in English to these distinctions are the dental-like 't' which is sometimes heard in the pronunciation of the word 'eighth', and the retroflex-like 't' in 'true' and the dental-like 'd' in 'breadth', and the retroflex-like 'd' in 'drum'.

ENGLISH / ð / and/ θ / These sounds, both spelled th, are pronounced by inserting the tip of the tongue between the teeth. But for some speakers the tongue merely touches behind the teeth, making a sound more correctly called dental Example : think or thin

FRENCH The stops [ t,d,n] do not have the same place of articulation in French and in English. These consonants are dental in French but avelor in English

The tip of tongue is placed a little further in front in French than in English (behind the upper front teeth). It is also labelled as denti-alveolar consonant : a consonant that is articulated with a flat tongue against the alveolar ridge and upper teeth, such as /t/and /d/ in French language.consonantalveolar ridge

The upper alveolar ridge is located between numbers 4 and 5