NEW VIDEO & QUIZ: Dental


Today you can view the new AXNting video on sounds that become dental and take the accompanying quiz to test your knowledge:

This video and quiz cover:

  • Dental diacritic: [ ̪]
  • Alveolar sounds /t,d,l,n/ positioning before /θ,ð/
  • Dentalisation within words and in connected speech. 
  • Comparison with English accents that don’t dentalise alveolar consonant sounds. 

Other videos in the AXNting resource that are related are:

  • Voiceless alveolar plosive /t/
  • Voiced alveolar plosive /d/
  • Voiced alveolar nasal /n/
  • Voiced alveolar lateral approximant /l/

The full video and quiz are found here.