Consonants Flashcards
What class share the propreties of both vowels and consonants?
Glides
What is more sonorous, louder and longer?
Vowels.
What are consonants
Obstructions in oral cavity
Define active and passive articulator
Active: Part of oral tract that moves to make the obstruction.
Passive: Part the oral tract is moved to.
What are the 3 dimensions of consonants
Voicing
Place of articulation
Manner of articulation
What are the places of articulation of bilabial?
Passive: top lip
Active: bottom lip
What are the bilabial consonants
p,b,m
What are the place of articulation of labiodental consonants?
Passive: teeth
Active: lower lip
What are labiodental consonants
f,v
What are the place of articulation of interdental consonants?
Passive: teeth
Active: Tongue tip
What are interdental consonants
θ (TH) AND ð (T)
What are the places of articulation of alveolar
Passive: Alveolar ridge (just behind upper teeth)
Active: Tongue tip
What are the alveolar consonants
d,l,n,t,s,r,z (7)
What are the places of articulation of Alveopalatal consonants
Passive: Alveopalatal
Active: Tongue body
What are the alveopalatal consonants
ʃ (shell), ʒ (illusion), t͡ʃ (chit), d͡ʒ (jumping)
What are the places of articulation of palatal consonants
Passive: Hard Palate
Active: Tongue body
What are the palatal consonants
j (yin yang)
What are the places of articulation of Velar
Passive: Velum/ soft palate
Active: tongue back
What are the velar consonants
k, g, ŋ, w
Whats specific about uvular
No english uvular consonants.
What are the articulators of glottal
Vocal folds
What are the glottal sounds?
h (high)
? (uh-oh) - can also be hear as t
What are the manner of articulation (6)
Stops, fricative, affricate, nasal, liquids, glides
What are oral stops. What are the oral stops, voiced and voiceless
Complete closure of oral cavity. Voiceless: p,t,k, ?
Voiced: b,d,g
What are fricatives? What are the fricatives, voiced and voiceless.
Continuous airflow through the mouth. Narrow opening, turbulent airflow (static).
Voiceless: f, θ, s, ʃ, h
Voiced: v, ð, z, ʒ
What are affricate. What are the affricates, voiced and voiceless.
Stop + fricative.
Voiceless: t͡ʃ
Voiced: d͡ʒ
What are Nasals. What are the nasals.
When the velum is lowered, air goes into nasal cavity
Voiced: m,n, ŋ
Are nasal stops?
Yes
What are Liquids? what are the liquids.
-Lateral, tongue touches roof of mouth, but non-turbulent airflow along sides (l)
-retroflex, rhotics (r)
What are glides, what are the glides
short vowels, continuous non turbulent airflow.
Voiced: j,w
Bilabial and labiodental are what major class?
Labial
Interdental, alveolar, alveopalatal, palatal are what major class?
Coronal
Velar and glottal are what major class?
Dorsal
Stops, fricative, affricate are what major class?
Obstruent
Liquids, glides and nasals are what major class?
Sonorants
