ABSTRACT
This chapter provides practice in distinguishing between pairs of consonants that learners tend to confuse. The exercise material includes minimal pairs demonstrating the contrast in word-initial, word-medial, and word-final positions and in words, phrases, and sentences containing both sounds. The chapter provides a set of tables in which the numbers indicate the sections containing the contrasts. It discusses the differences between the voiceless bilabial plosive and voiced bilabial plosive, voiceless alveolar plosive and voiced alveolar plosive, and voiceless velar plosive and voiced velar plosive. The chapter also illustrates the differences between voiced post-alveolar approximant and voiced labial-velar approximant, and voiced alveolar lateral approximant and voiced post-alveolar approximant.
