Analytical Fifth Reader - sixth Author:Richard Edwards Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PHONIC ANALYSIS. LESSON I. An Elementary 8ound is produced,from textit{its beginning to its close, without any change in the position of the organs of spee... more »ch. In pronouncing the word textit{feet, we produce three elementary sounds,?sounds that cannot be divided. The first, which we call " the sound of textit{f" is formed by continuous blowing while the lower lip is placed lightly against the edges of the upper front teeth; the second, which is called " long textit{e," is produced by singing, while the tongue, slightly advanced, and curved so as to be highest in the middle, is raised nearly to the roof of the mouth ; and the " sound of textit{t" is formed by first pressing the end of the tongue against the inner gums of the upper front teeth, compressing the breath above it, and then suddenly allowing the forced breath to escape in a slight gust. Pronounce each of the following words, and then utter separately whichever of these three sounds it contains : cat, me, cuff, laugh, sheaf, sphere, tea, eat, reefed. Which of the three, if any, do you hear when you pronounce of ? bed ? beak ? team ? tot ? thee ? thank ? elk ? enough ? What four ways do you observe of representing the sound of /, in sheaf, cuff, laugh, sphere ? Name three other words to illustrate each of these four ways. In what two ways is the sound of textit{t represented in textit{cat and textit{reefed? LESSON II. Pronounce mete, mead, meed, bier, seize, pique, key, paean. In each of these words is heard the sound of long textit{e ; yet no two of the modes of representing it arc alike. This sound is usually represented in tho keys to English spelling-books and dictionaries by e. [The short horizontal mark over the textit{e is called a textit{macron."] WelwilJ use ij whenever we wish to textit{...« less