Consonants vs. Vowels
Manner, Place, and Voicing
Types of Consonants
More Types of Consonants
Anything Goes
100
A phoneme produced with a constriction in the vocal tract; usually found at the beginning and end of a syllable
What is a consonant?
100
The specific articulators employed in the production of a particular phoneme; location of consonants
What is place of articulation?
100
Consonant produced with complete closure in the oral cavity along with a lowered velum to allow airflow through the nasal cavity
What is a nasal consonant?
100
Interdental fricative; voiceless 'th'
What is theta?
100
Consonant following a vowel
What is postvocalic?
200
Consonants produced with resonance occurring throughout the entire vocal tract
What are sonorant consonants?
200
Phonemes differing in only voicing
What are cognates?
200
Consonant characterized by a complete obstruction of the outgoing airstream by the articulators, a build up of intraoral air pressure and a release
What is a stop consonant?
200
Interdental fricative; voiced 'th'
What is eth?
200
Two consonants sharing the same place of articulation
What is homorganic?
300
Consonant preceding a vowel
What is prevocalic?
300
Way in which the airstream is modified as it passes through the vocal tract in production of consonants
What is manner of articulation?
300
Consonant characterized as having both a fricative and a stop manner of production
What is an affricate consonant?
300
Consonant characterized by a continued, gliding motion of the articulators into the following vowel
What is a glide?
300
Class of sounds, with a noise source, including the stops, fricatives, and affricates; also called nonresonant consonants
What are obstruent consonants?
400
Consonant between 2 vowels
What is intervocalic?
400
Participation of the vocal folds during phoneme production
What is voicing?
400
Consonant produced by forcing the breath stream through a narrow channel formed by two separate articulators in the vocal tract
What is a fricative consonant?
400
Generic label used to classify two English approximant consonants /r/ and /l/
What are liquids?
400
Air pressure within the oral cavity, created by a constriction of the articulators during production of stop consonants
What is intraoral pressure?
500
Consonant that serves as the nucleus of a syllable
What is syllabic?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!! ]The production of a frictional noise following the release of a voiceless stop consonant
What is aspiration?
500
Alveolar and palatal fricatives which are perceived as being louder than the other fricatives
What are sibilants?
500
Manner of production in which the airstream is directed over the sides of the tongue
What is lateral?
500
An allophonic variation of /t/ or /d/, produced when the release of the stop is at the level of the vocal folds instead of in the oral cavity
What is a glottal stop?
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