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Consonant Articulation Guide

The document summarizes the different manners of articulation for consonant sounds. It describes plosives as sounds involving a complete closure that is then released, like 'p' or 'b'. Fricatives involve a narrow opening that creates friction, like 'f' or 's'. Nasals allow air to escape through the nose, like 'm' or 'n'. Laterals allow air to escape along the sides of the tongue, like 'l'. Approximants involve the tongue approaching but not touching the roof of the mouth, like 'r' or 'w'. Affricates begin as plosives and end as fricatives, like 'ch' or 'j'.

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Consonant Articulation Guide

The document summarizes the different manners of articulation for consonant sounds. It describes plosives as sounds involving a complete closure that is then released, like 'p' or 'b'. Fricatives involve a narrow opening that creates friction, like 'f' or 's'. Nasals allow air to escape through the nose, like 'm' or 'n'. Laterals allow air to escape along the sides of the tongue, like 'l'. Approximants involve the tongue approaching but not touching the roof of the mouth, like 'r' or 'w'. Affricates begin as plosives and end as fricatives, like 'ch' or 'j'.

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Consonants

Manners of Articulation
The manner of articulation has to do with the kind of obstruction the air meets on its
way out, after it has passed the vocal folds. It may meet a complete closure (plosives),
an almost complete closure (fricatives), or a smaller degree of closure (approximants),
or the air might escape in more exceptional ways, around the sides of the tongue
(laterals), or through the nasal cavity (nasals).

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Description Symbol Examples/words
Plosive Plosive are definined as /P/,/b/, /t/, /d/, /k/, Pick, bed, team,
consonant sounds which involve, /g/ dine, code, get
first, a stricture of the mouth that
allows no air to escape from the
vocal tact, and, second, the
compression and release of the
air.

Fricative Fricatives are characterized by a /f/, /v/,/s/,/z/ Fine, very, kiss,


/θ/, /ð/, /ʃ/, /ʒ/,/h/ shine, pleasure,
“hissing” sound which is
zero, information,
produced by the air escaping
television, hello
through a small passage in the

mouth.

Affricate Affricates begin as plosives and /tʃ /, /dʒ/ Child, chicken,


end as fricatives. These are jerry, age.
homorganic sounds, that is, the
same articulator produces both
sound, the plosive and the
fricative.

Nasal The basic feature of a nasal is that /n/, /m/, / ŋ/ Mother, summer
the air escapes through the nose
and the main difference between No, funny
the three types of nasals is the Sing, going
point where the air is stopped in
the mouth.

Lateral A lateral consonant is one in ⟨λ⟩ Lip, clip.


which air escapes from the mouth
along the sides of the tongue. The
only additional information about
the lateral /l/ is the existence of a
clear /l/ at initial position and a
dark /l/, when it is final or medial
preceding a consonant. The
dark /l/ is similar to an /u/ vowel.
Approximant The approximant /r/ is produced /w/, /j/, /r/, /l/ What, one.
by the tip of the tongue Yes, year
approaching the alveolar area but Run, wrong
it never touches it. Besides, the Tall. long
tongue is slightly curled
backwards with the tip raised
(this is called to be “retroflex”).
In RP this sound only occurs
before vowels. However, many
accents of English do
pronounce /r/ after vowels. This
is the difference between non-
rhotic and rhotic accents.

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