Glide

Sounds

Made by:
Tania Salazar
Lina lopez
Juan Camilo Mayorga
Jafep Gomez
 Tania Salazar

WHAT KIND
OF SOUND IT
IS?
A glide is a consonant whose sound is characterized by a movement of the
articulators from one position to another.​

Glides are sometimes referred to as semi-vowels or semi consonants.​

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 How to say /w/
In the same way W is closely similar to U : if you make the initial sound of 'wet' or
'yet' very long, you will be able to hear this. But despite this vowel-like character , we
use them like consonants.​

We can show that a word beginning with W or J is regarded as begining with a

consonant in the following way:​
/w/
 EXAMPLES
water /ˈwɔːtə(r)/
wave /weɪv/

Pure/pjʊə(r)/​
wine /waɪn/ Ttune /tjuːn/​
Queue/kjuː/ ​
Twin /twɪn/
 Glides are signaled by moving
tongue position. They are both

HOW IS IT voiceless​

Post Alveolar glide /j/ the tongue

FORMED?​
begins in the /i/ (high front) regions
and moves towards the position of
whathever vowel follows:​
 ​
Velar Glide /w/: the tongue takes
an /u/ (high back position) and
moves into the following vowel. ​

Pure/pjʊə(r)/​
Ttune /tjuːn/​
Queue/kjuː/ ​
Twin /twɪn/