Deaf consonants in Russian. Voiced and voiceless consonants

Russian has 21 consonants and 36 consonants. Consonants and their corresponding consonant sounds:
b - [b], c - [c], d - [g], d - [d], f - [g], d - [d], h - [h], k - [k], l - [l], m - [m], n - [n], n - [n], r - [p], s - [s], t - [t], f - [f], x - [x ], c - [c], h - [h], w - [w], u - [u].

Consonants are divided into voiced and deaf, hard and soft. They are paired and unpaired. There are 36 different combinations of consonants in terms of pairing-unpairing of hard and soft, deaf and voiced: deaf - 16 (8 soft and 8 hard), voiced - 20 (10 soft and 10 hard).

Scheme 1. Consonant letters and consonant sounds of the Russian language.

Hard and soft consonants

Consonants are hard and soft. They are divided into paired and unpaired. Paired hard and paired soft consonants help us distinguish between words. Compare: horse [kon '] - con [kon], bow [bow] - hatch [l'uk].

For understanding, let's explain "on the fingers". If a consonant letter in different words means either a soft or a hard sound, then the sound is paired. For example, in the word cat, the letter k denotes a hard sound [k], in the word whale, the letter k denotes a soft sound [k ']. We get: [k] - [k '] form a pair of hardness-softness. Sounds for different consonants cannot be attributed to a pair, for example [v] and [k '] do not make a pair in hardness-softness, but make a pair [v] - [v ']. If a consonant is always hard or always soft, then it belongs to unpaired consonants. For example, the sound [g] is always solid. There are no words in Russian where it would be soft [zh']. Since there is no pair [w] - [w ’], then it belongs to unpaired ones.

Voiced and voiceless consonants

Consonants are voiced and voiceless. Thanks to voiced and deaf consonants, we distinguish words. Compare: ball - heat, count - goal, house - volume. Deaf consonants are pronounced with the mouth almost covered; when they are pronounced, the vocal cords do not work. For voiced consonants, more air is needed, the vocal cords work.

Some consonant sounds have a similar sound in terms of pronunciation, but are pronounced with different tonality - deaf or sonorous. Such sounds are combined in pairs and form a group of paired consonants. Accordingly, paired consonants are a pair of voiceless and voiced consonants.

• paired consonants: b-p, v-f, g-k, d-t, s-s, f-sh.
• unpaired consonants: l, m, n, p, d, c, x, h, u.

Sonorant, noisy and hissing consonants

Sonorant - voiced unpaired consonants. There are 9 sonorous sounds: [th '], [l], [l '], [m], [m '], [n], [n '], [p], [p '].
Noisy consonants are voiced and deaf:

1. Noisy voiceless consonants (16): [k], [k "], [p], [p"], [s], [s"], [t], [t"], [f], [f "], [x], [x'], [q], [h'], [w], [w'];
2. Noisy voiced consonants (11): [b], [b '], [c], [c '], [g], [g '], [d], [d '], [g], [s ], [h'].

Hissing consonants (4): [g], [h '], [w], [u '].

Paired and unpaired consonants

Consonants (soft and hard, deaf and voiced) are divided into paired and unpaired. The tables above show the division. Let's summarize everything with a diagram:

To be able to do phonetic analysis, in addition to consonants, you need to know

What sounds are called consonants?
What is a consonant made of?
What are consonant sounds?
How many consonant letters and consonant sounds are there in the Russian alphabet?
Which consonants are always hard and which are always soft?
What letters indicate the softness of a consonant sound?

Sounds, during the pronunciation of which air meets an obstacle in the mouth, are called consonants. A consonant sound consists of noise and voice, or only noise.

The consonants are divided into voiced and deaf. Voiced sounds are made up of noise and voice, deaf sounds are made up of noise only.

Sounds consist only of noise: [k], [p], [s], [t], [f], [x], [c], [h], [w], [u]. These are voiceless consonants.

Many consonants form couples by voice-deafness: [b] — [p], [c] — [f], [g] — [k], [d] — [t], [h] — [s], [f] — [sh].

To memorize voiced consonants, you can learn the phrase: " LION AND TOAD HAVE MANY FRIENDS».
See all phrases for memorizing voiced and voiceless consonants.

Deaf consonants are easy to remember by the phrase: " STEPKA, WANT A CHICK?— Ugh!».

Consonant sounds are indicated by letters:

B,IN,G,D,AND,W,Y,TO,L,M,H,P,R,WITH,T,F,X,C,H,W,SCH.

In total, the Russian language has 21 consonants.

Consonants are also hard and soft.

Hard and soft sounds differ in the position of the tongue during pronunciation. When pronouncing soft consonants, the middle back of the tongue is raised to the hard palate.

Most consonants form pairs of hardness-softness:

The following hard and soft consonants do not form pairs in hardness-softness:

Table "Consonants: paired and unpaired, voiced and deaf, hard and soft" (Grades 1-4)

Note: in elementary school, hard consonants are marked in blue, soft consonants in green, and vowels in red.

Hardness consonants are indicated in writing by vowels A , ABOUT , At , S , E .

Softness consonant sound is indicated in writing by vowels E , Yo , I , Yu , I, as well as the letter b(soft sign).

Compare: nose[nose] - carried[n❜os], corner[corner] - coal[ugal❜].

Unpaired voiced sounds [d❜], [l], [l❜], [m], [m❜] [n], [n❜] [r], [r❜] are called sonorous, which means "sonorous" in Latin.

Sounds [g], [w], [h❜], [u❜] are called hissing. They got this name because their pronunciation is like a hiss.

Sounds [w], [w] are unpaired solid hissing sounds.
The sounds [h❜] and [u❜] are unpaired soft hissing sounds.

The sounds [c], [s❜], [z], [z❜], [c] are called whistling.

Consonant can not be percussive or unpercussed.

In Russian, there are more consonant sounds (36) than consonant letters (21), since one letter can denote paired hard and soft sounds: for example, the letter L (el) denotes the sounds [l] and [l❜].

Attention! A consonant can form a syllable only with

A lot of trouble with letters, that's the kind of people they are.

Sounds change without asking, and they pretend to be different.

How much trouble these letters and sounds bring to children! Learn the letters, and then also remember when and what sound they represent! And the sounds of these oh-oh-oh, how many. How to remember everything voiced and voiceless consonants?

Everything, it turns out, is very simple, if you properly set up the child.

Oh, I already wrote. But consonants are not only hard and soft, but also voiced - deaf. And they bring so much trouble in the form of mistakes to children! How to teach a child to correctly identify?

Just memorizing voiced and deaf consonants is a losing business. Even if the child remembers, it will be very difficult for him to apply this knowledge. But if the child understands how voiced and deaf sounds are obtained, learns to hear them and identify them by signs, then it will be easy for him to remember.

Let's take a look at ourselves first voiced and voiceless consonants.

In Russian, consonants are divided into voiced and deaf, depending on the participation of the voice in the pronunciation of the sound. How to define it? Pronounce a single consonant sound and put your hand to your throat. If the vocal cords vibrate, then it is a ringing sound. If not, then deaf. Check with your child and say the sounds B - P, M or X. Did you notice?

Voicedness or deafness can be defined differently. Cover your ears with your palms and pronounce the consonant sound. Did you hear a voice or noise? If a voice is heard, then the sound is sonorous, if the noise is deaf.

And so you can easily and simply determine voiced or voiceless consonant. At first, this method is very good. But if the child continues like this, then it will take a lot of time. The child will not have time to complete the work in the lesson. Therefore, it is necessary that the child remember the consonants voiced and deaf.

And here we need to remember that the brain can perceive information in different ways - through hearing, sight or sensations. This means that in order for the child to remember the information, it is necessary to influence all the systems of the child.

Determining the voicedness and deafness of consonants by ear, we have already included hearing in the work. Putting a hand to the throat, we connected the sensations. Now we need to connect and vision. To do this, you need to make a plate or drawing, where to designate voiced and deaf consonants with some symbols.

Voiced and voiceless consonants are paired and unpaired. So, when compiling such a scheme or tablet, it is necessary to place paired consonants side by side. You can use any symbols that remind the child that the sound is voiced or deaf. So in this scheme, voiced consonants are indicated by a bell, and deaf ones by headphones.

Draw a similar sign with your child. Let him independently place the letters near the desired symbol, and you only control and direct the actions of the child. Remember that a person will remember well only what he did on his own.

Play the resettlement of letters on floors or houses with the desired symbol several times and the child will perfectly remember voiced and deaf consonants. Hang this sign in a prominent place and periodically return to it, ask the child to tell, show, name some sounds.

So, playing, repeating the already familiar properties of sounds and letters, you will help your child learn the basics of the Russian language without difficulty, memorize voiced and voiceless consonants.

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Consonant sounds are sounds, during the pronunciation of which obstacles arise in the path of the air flow. There are 36 consonants in Russian. Consonants are letters that represent consonant sounds in writing. There are 21 of them in Russian. All consonants of the Russian alphabet: B, C, G, D, F, Z, Y, K, L, M, N, P, R, C, T, F, X, C, H, Sh, Sh.

Consonants can be hard or soft, voiceless or voiced. Consonants can be deaf or voiced, they do not have a hardness / softness sign.

Most consonants are paired on the basis of hardness / softness. The same letter can represent the corresponding hard or soft sound in different words. For example, the letter B denotes a soft sound in the word bandage and a hard sound in the word bull. The softness of a consonant during transcription is indicated by a comma (apostrophe) to the right above the consonant icon: bʼ.

Soft consonant sounds in Russian become if they are followed by second-row vowels (E, E, Yu, Ya, I) and b. Compare: sleep [spʼat] and sleep [spatʼ].

Paired consonant sounds on the basis of hardness / softness

Sometimes students forget whether Y, Shchi Ch are soft or hard consonants. Determining the softness / hardness of unpaired consonants often causes difficulties, since there is nothing to compare them with.

The classification of paired and unpaired consonants, soft and hard consonants, voiced and deaf consonants in the table is presented below:

Y, Щ and Ch are always soft consonants.

Shch and Ch are always pronounced softly, no matter what letter comes after. These are soft unpaired hissing consonants. They become the cause of spelling errors in the spelling of words with combinations CHU, SCHU, CHA, SCHA (miracle [chʼu], pike [shʼu], thicket [hʼashchʼa]).

Y is a special letter. It represents a consonant voiced soft sound, in transcription denoted by the icon [j] (yot).

[Ж] and [ш] are unpaired solid hissing consonants. C is also an unpaired solid sound. Because of their hardness, schoolchildren have a common mistake in combinations ZhI, SHI (wide [shy], life [shy]), TSY-QI (chicken - circus).

Voiceless and voiced consonants

Consonants are composed of noise (voiceless) or noise and voice (voiced). Consonants that sound similar form pairs.

Voiced consonants, in which the proportion of noise is minimal, are called sonorants (from the Latin sonorus, which means “sonorous”). This is [m] - [mʼ], [n] - [nʼ], [l] - [lʼ], [r] - [rʼ] and. They do not have a pair of deafness / sonority.

Consonants and sounds can be deaf and voiced. Does this mean that there is always a voiced sound behind a voiced consonant letter, and a voiceless sound behind a voiceless letter? Not at all. For example: cat [cat] and code [cat].

Paired and unpaired consonants behave differently in a word. For sounds that are paired in deafness / sonority, a strong position (that is, one in which the sound is clearly, clearly manifested) is the position before a vowel or sonorant sound. Before a consonant and at the end of a word, a consonant can change the sound.

Voiceless consonants can represent voiced consonants when they come before a voiced consonant. For example: station - in [gz] al, knock down - [zbʼ] it, mowing - ko [zʼb] a. This process is called voicing.

Voiced consonants represent a voiceless consonant at the end of a word or before a voiceless consonant. For example: tooth - zu [p], jump - burp [tp], eye - eye [s]. This process is called stunning.

Often children have a question: is c a voiced or deaf consonant? Let us explain the nature of this sound. [c] is an affricate, that is, it comes from the merger of two sounds: [t] and [s]. Both components are deaf, and the resulting [ts] is also deaf.

Table of deaf and voiced consonant pairs:

Consonants unpaired by deafness of voicedness:

Memorize deaf letters will help mnemonics. In the phrase “Styopka, do you want a cabbage? Fi!" contains all unvoiced consonants and none of the voiced ones.

Every first grader knows that sound is a unit of speech that we pronounce and hear, and letters we read and write. They in Russian are divided into vowels and consonants. Of the 33 letters of the Russian alphabet, 21 are called consonants. They are divided by sonority and deafness, softness and hardness. To study the classification of letters begins with grade 1, but the student will have to use it until graduation. When studying phonetics, each student must learn to distinguish voiceless sounds from voiced ones. During writing, they are indicated by transcription - [b]. The table will help to distinguish and remember paired consonant sounds.

Paired consonants by voiced-deafness

All consonants in Russian form pairs, a voiced consonant is opposed to a deaf one. There are 12 paired letters in total, 6 pairs are obtained:

Paired and unpaired consonants need to be known in order to be successful in spelling. Many orthograms of the Russian language are based on the selection of cognate words according to this classification, for example:

• soft - soft
• tooth teeth.

The first pair contains the letter g, which is indistinctly heard during pronunciation and its spelling brings difficulty. The second words are test words when the spelling is pronounced clearly. Younger students often make mistakes in these works.

You may notice that not all letters of the alphabet form pairs. This happens due to the fact that in phonetics there are rules that must be remembered. They are based on the fact that sounds can only be voiced or only deaf. It is easy to remember them, since they have a small amount. As a rule, students by the end of grade 1 know them by heart. These include p, n, l, m, d - sonorous, always voiced, c, h, w, x - always deaf.

Paired consonants by softness-hardness

Consonants are usually divided into hard and soft. In phonetics, the softening process occurs in several situations:

• when there is a vowel after the consonant: u, i, e, e, and (blizzard, buttercup);
• or there is a soft sign (blizzard, drink).

If a consonant is followed by a vowel, except for e, e, u, i, and, then it does not allow softening. For example, in the words peony, earth, after the consonant there is a vowel, which provokes the softening process. In such words as a lamp, water, there are no letters e, e, u, i, and therefore, when pronouncing, all sounds are solid.

There are also letters that, during their speech reproduction, will always be soft or hard. These include: w, h, d, c, w, w. Each student needs to know the classification of letters and sounds for successful learning.

A special table will help you remember paired voiced and deaf. It is easy to navigate through it.

Such a table or similar can sometimes be found in the primary school classroom. It has been proven that younger students have more visual-figurative thinking, so they need to provide new information in the form of illustrations or pictures, then it will be effective.

Each parent can create such a table on the desktop of a first grader. Do not be afraid that this hint will lead to student laziness. On the contrary, if he often looks at the image, he will quickly remember everything he needs.

There are more consonant sounds in Russian, so remembering their classification is more difficult. If you list all the deaf and voiced, then you get the number 12. The letters h, w, d, u, c, g, r, n, l, m are not taken into account, they are unpaired.

There are tips for children on how to quickly learn to recognize voiced and voiceless consonants when parsing a word. To do this, you need to press your palm to your throat and utter a distinctly separate sound. Voiceless and voiced consonants will be pronounced differently and, accordingly, differently reflected in the palm of your hand. If it vibrates in the hand, it is voiced; if not, it is deaf. Many guys use this hint when studying phonetics.

There is another exercise that helps to accurately determine which consonant is in front of the student. To do this, you need to close your ears with your hands, but at the same time, silence should be desirable. Pronounce the exciting letter, listen to it with your ears closed. If it is not heard, then it is a deaf sound, if, on the contrary, it is distinct, it is sonorous.

If you try, today any parent can find many interesting, exciting and educational exercises and rules that will help the baby easily learn new knowledge. This will make the learning process more interesting and entertaining, which in turn will affect academic performance.