Bilabial Sounds
The repeating consonant sound in "Betty bought big blue balloons."
What is /b/?
The repeating consonant sound in "The furious fox fought four fierce falcons."
What is /f/?
The place of articulation where the tongue tip is placed between the upper and lower front teeth.
What is interdental?
The repeating consonant sound in "Two tiny turtles travelled together to town."
What is /t/?
The point of articulation for the first sound in the word paper.
What is bilabial?
The repeating consonant sound in "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
What is /p/?
The repeating consonant sound in "Valerie drives a vibrant van."
What is /v/?
The sound represented by the underlined letters in "The thirsty thief thought of thirty things."
What is /θ/ (voiceless "th")?
The repeating consonant sound in "Danny danced happily down the dark driveway."
What is /d/?
The two places of articulation involved in saying the word mouth (in order).
What are bilabial and interdental?
The place of articulation for the bolded letter in the word mouth.
What is bilabial? (for the /m/ sound)
The place of articulation for the bolded sound in the word favor.
What is labiodental?
The sound represented by the underlined letters in "Those there are their things."
What is /ð/ (voiced "th")?
The place of articulation for the underlined sound in the word nine.
What is alveolar?
The two places of articulation involved in saying the word fast (first and last consonant sounds).
What are labiodental and alveolar?
The consonant sound repeating in "My mom makes many muffins."
What is /m/?
The two body parts that come into contact to make a labiodental sound. Be specific!
What are the top teeth and lower lip?
The place of articulation for the underlined letters in the word feather.
What is interdental?
The repeating consonant sound in "Seven silver snakes slithered silently."
What is /s/?
This literary term describes the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of adjacent words, as seen in most of these quiz sentences.
Example: Sally saw seashells on the seashore.
What is alliteration?
The anatomical parts used to articulate a bilabial sound.
What are both lips (upper and lower lips)?
Between /f/ and /v/, this sound causes vocal cord vibration (is voiced).
What is /v/?
The linguistic difference between the "th" sound in "think" and the "th" sound in "this."
What is voicing? ("think" is voiceless /θ/; "this" is voiced /ð/)
The specific ridge behind the upper teeth used to articulate /t/, /d/, and /n/.
What is the alveolar ridge?
Categorize these four sounds in order of articulation from the front of the mouth to the back: /t/, /p/, /f/, /θ/.
What is /p/ (bilabial), /f/ (labiodental), /θ/ (interdental), /t/ (alveolar)?