How to pronounce "Months" and "Clothes" [movements of mouth and tongue]

[angelsp]

month /mʌn θ/ months /mʌn θs/

How should we pronounce when it is plura, do you quick pronounce /θ/ and /s/ or just pronounce /s/ and ignore /θ/

I know we need to stick our tongue out of our mouth when we make /θ/ sound, when say months, do we still need to stick out our tongue and quick withdraw back and make sound /s/ immediately to finish?
Or should we just make the sound like /mʌn s/

Same question applies to the word clothes, /kləʊðz/ how to pronounce /ðz/ together.

Thank you for help.

 

[Valvs]

Have you tried looking for an answer first? There have been several threads already asking the same question, for example, this

http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=955845

and this

http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1832206

and another one:
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1772320

 

[Cagey]

As I understand it, angelsp is asking for a description of the mechanics of pronouncing the combined sounds th + s. That is, angel is asking how you move your mouth and tongue.

There may be another thread on this, but the only one I found is about the pronunciation of th alone. It doesn't tell how to follow it with an s sound:. In which way do you pronounce θ and ð?

This is a related discussion, but it doesn't deal with s after an aspirated t.
How to pronounce "s" after "t" and "d"

Unfortunately, I am poor at analyzing and describing pronunciation. I hope that someone with those skills will help here.

Added: Another relevant thread: Pronunciation: th-, -th, -thes
It is closer to the subject. However it still does not fully answer the question of how the sounds are made.

 

[natkretep]

How should we pronounce when it is plura, do you quick pronounce /θ/ and /s/ or just pronounce /s/ and ignore /θ/

I know we need to stick our tongue out of our mouth when we make /θ/ sound, when say months, do we still need to stick out our tongue and quick withdraw back and make sound /s/ immediately to finish?
Or should we just make the sound like /mʌn s/

In general yes, you should pronounce both the /θ/ and the /s/. Put the tongue under your teeth and then withdraw it.

I know that a lot of speakers from China use a kind of /s/ sound for 'th' as in 'thin', and for them it would be impossible to produce what we described. If you say /mʌn s/, it would sound like Chinese-accented English.

 

[Uriel-]

You can simply say "munts" and "cloze", which is really pretty close to how many native speakers say those words when speaking quickly.