consonants Flashcards
In the IPA, how many consonants are the same as Roman English Letters?
19
What are consonants?
a phoneme produced with a constriction in the VT
Major features of consonant phoneme production..
place, manner, and voicing
Place
where in the oral mechanism is speech produced
Manner
How is speech produced, is the airflow modified
Voicing
is voicing present or absent?
resonants
a class of sounds with a resonance through the entire VT
nonresonants
a class of sounds characterized by a noise source that originates at the constriction in the VT, as air flows though the supra-laryngeal system
what is another word for nonresonants?
obstruents
what are stops?
a complete obstruction of the outgoing airstream by the articulators
what are the two parts of a stop?
- there is a build up of intra-oral pressure and 2. it is released in order to produce the sound
what is another word for stops?
plosive stops
what is a flap?
is an allophone of /t/ and /d/ that usually occurs medially in words like butter, ladder, static
glottal stop
there is no letter for this sound, it is also an allophone of /t/ and /d/
“hawaii” “uh oh”
syllabic consonant
syllable without a vowel typically under nasal or liquid when replacing a vowel
