Dental fricatives are consonants with the characteristic th...

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     Sounds (phonemes) are represented by phonetic symbols, for example /bi:t/ for ‘beat’. In English, however, there is no one-to-one correspondence between written letters and spoken sounds. Thus the ‘c’ of ‘cat’ is pronounced differently from the ‘c’ in ‘cease’. ‘Though’, ‘through’ and ‘rough’ all have the ‘-ou-’ spelling, but it is pronounced differently in each case. Different spellings can have the same sound too: ‘plane’ and ‘gain’ both have the same vowel sound, but they are spelt differently.


(Jeremy Harmer. How to teach English, 1998. Adaptado)
Dental fricatives are consonants with the characteristic that air escapes through a narrow passage between the tongue and the teeth. There is a distinction in pronunciation between unvoiced fricatives as in “think”, and voiced fricatives, as in “that”. The initial th is an unvoiced fricative in 
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