1. ESCUELA DE IDIOMAS
ANDREA QUIÑONEZ
5to PLURILINGUE

2. CONTRATS OF ENGLISH AND
SPANISH FRICATIVE
Fricative sounds are produced the articulator partially
touches the point of articulationand gets close enough
that airflow throungh the opening becomes turbulent.
ENGLISH SPANISH has a wide
/f/ /v/ labio dental dialectal variation,
/s/ /z/ apico alveolar consequently
/θ/ /ð/ apico speakers of different
interdental dialects our
/ʃ/ /Ʒ/ fronto palatal pronounciation
/h/ glottal problem.
TIPS
The letter <v> is a part of the Spanish Alphabet it is pronunced [b] or fricative
[β].
The /ʃ/ sound is not problem for Ecuadorian Andean speakers due to the
kychwa /ʃ/.

3. /f-v/ PRODUCTION
/f/ voiceless, labio-dental,oral, fricative.
/v/ voiced, labio-dental,oral, fricative.
/f/ PHONEMIC /v/ PHONEMIC AND
AND PHONETIC PHONETIC
FEATURES FEATURES
Both languages The /v/ sound does
have the /f/ sound not exist in Spanish.
which is voiceless, In English /v/ is
labio-dental,oral, voiced, labio-
fricative. dental,oral, fricative.
Spanish has two It has one allophone:
allophones: [v]
[f] [ɸ]

4. /s/ PRODUCTION
/s/ voiceless, apico-alveolar, oral, fricative.
/s/ PHONEMIC AND PHONETIC
FEATURES
Both languages have the /s/ sound
which is voiceless, apico-
alveolar,oral, fricative.
English variants:
[s] [-s̻-]

5. /z/ PRODUCTION
/z/ voiced, apico-alveolar, oral, fricative.
/z/ PHONEMIC AND PHONETIC
FEATURES
Both languages have the /s/ sound
which is voiceless, apico-alveolar,oral,
fricative.In Spanish the [z] sound occurs
before a voiced consonant sound
because of its positional variation and it
is an allophone.
English has one allophone: [z]

6. /θ/ PRODUCTION
/θ/ voiceless, apico-interdental, oral, fricative.
Ecuadorian Spanish speakers find particulary difficulty in
producing the /Ɵ/ in initial and midddle position of English
words. In final position, we do have this sound as an
allophone of /d/
EXAMPLES:
SPANISH
Ciudad [sju’ðaθ]
ENGLISH
Thank /’θæŋk/

7. /θ/ PHONEMIC AND PHONETIC
FEATURES
Both languages have the /θ/ sound whichthe distinction that Spanish
it is an allophone [θ] while in English it is a phoneme.
The English /θ/ sound has no phonetic variation.
Eventhough the phoneme /θ/ is not used
in American Spanish it occurs in a low
register as a phoneme of /s/ in the
province of Manabí in our country-
Ecuador.
For example:
<salir> /θa'li/
<receta> /ɾe'θeta/

8. /ð/ PRODUCTION
/ð/ voiced, apico-interdental, oral, fricative.
Since [ð] is a positional variant in Spanish for /d/ Spanish speakers
tend to pronounce <th> as a dental stop sound, /d/.
EXAMPLES:
SPANISH
Verdad [beɾ̻’ðaθ]
ENGLISH
That /’ðæt/

9. Both languages have the
/ð/ sound in Spanish it is
an allophone which
occurs in middle
position betwwen
vowels.
/ð/ PHONEMIC AND
PHONETIC FEATURES
English Examples:
English it is a phoneme [ð]
Although /əl'ðow/
in initial, middle and
Teethe /'tiyð/
final position.

10. /ʃ/ PRODUCTION
/ʃ/ voiced, fronto-palatal, oral, groove, fricative.
In Spanish does not occurs . Speanish speakers from Ecuador use it
as part of kichwa words loaned to the language.
EXAMPLES: EXAMPLES:
EXAMPLES:
ENGLISH ENGLISH
ENGLISH
<sh> should /'ʃʊd/ <sch> schwa /'ʃwa/
<ci> special /‘spƐʃəl/
<s> insurance <sc> crescendo
<ti> partial /’parʃəl/
/ɪn'ʃʊɹəns/ /kɹə’ʃƐndow/
<xu,xi>=k luxury
<ss> issue /’ɪʃuw/ <ce> ocean /’owʃƐn/
/‘ləkʃəɹɪy/

11. /ʃ/ PHONEMIC AND PHONETIC
FEATURES
Examples:
This /ʃ/ sound occurs English
exclusively in English Propulsion /pɹə‘pəlʃən/
has one allophone [ʃ] . Permission /pəɹ'mɪʃən/