Voiced labiodental fricative/v/
- Place
- labiodental
- Manner
- fricative
- Tongue tip
- —
- Airflow
- continuous oral
- Voice
- voiced
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Guided practice · General American English
English Sound Laboratory
Canonical initial /v/ versus /w/ control
Contrast canonical initial /v/ with /w/ while keeping the following rhyme stable.
PracticeGuided practiceRecord and listen at every stage
Practise with trustworthy examples. Reviewed audio is used where it is available. On other items, you can still record, listen back and retry. Pronunciation feedback appears only where this lab has a reviewed feedback check.
See · compare · teeth-and-lip for /v/, rounded glide for /w/
Make friction for /v/; glide without friction for /w/
For /v/, the lower lip approaches the upper teeth and creates voiced friction. For /w/, round the lips and raise the back of the tongue into a smooth voiced glide without labiodental contact. Keep the following vowel stable.
Voiced labiovelar approximant/w/
- Place
- labio velar
- Manner
- approximant
- Tongue tip
- —
- Airflow
- central oral
- Voice
- voiced
What you are hearing: these short clips come from the reviewed sentence at the end of this lab. Use them as context examples for the sound.