Consonants!

consonant

a speech sound produced with a complete or partial obstruction to the airstream

most common syllable structure

CV

How do we describe a consonat

• place of articulation

• manner of articulation

• voicing

manner of articulation

how the sound is made

place of articulation

where is the sound made

voicing

are the vocal folds vibrating during production

stops

• form a closure in the oral cavity at one of 3 places of articulation

• short in duration

cognates

• only differ by voicing

• /p/ and /b/

Fricatives

• articulates form narrow constriction

• closure is incomplete

• stridents and sibilants

stridents

• speech sound characterized by intense friction noice

sibilants

• speech sound characterized by an intense high picthed noice

Affricates

• combo of a stop and fricative

Nasals

• oral tract is completley clsoed

Liquids

• approximant consonat

• vowel like or sonorant consonat

  • lateral /l/

  • rhotic /r/

glides

• gliding movement

• approximate consonant

• constriction narrower than for a vowel but wider than for stops

most common place of articulation in english

alveolar