Mouth distinguishes
The sounds of English
Consonants
General Terms
Mystery Category
100

Using the lips and teeth

What is Labiodental?

100

a,e,i,o,u and sometimes y and w

What is a vowel?

100

Blocking off the air flow then exploding a puff of air

What are Plosives?

100

 A letter cluster that stands for one sound

What is Digraph?

100

The combined sound that the cluster stands for

What is a Blend?

200

 The roof of the mouth is called?

What is palatal?

200

Every other letter of the alphabet besides the vowels

What is a consonant?

200

Sometimes called semivowels

What is Glides?

200

The study of Language 

What is Linguistics? 

200

(-) this represents long vowels

What is macron?

300

The lips

What is bilabial?

300

Speech sounds

What is a phoneme?
300

Forcing air through the nose

What is Nasals?

300

Speech sounds 

What is Phonics? 

300

The most two common diacritical mark

What are Macron and Breve?

400

The front of the mouth where teeth arise

What is alveolar?

400

A written representation

What is a grapheme?

400

Narrowing the air channel then forcing air through 

What is Fricatives?

400

The slightly different version of each phoneme

What is Allophone? 

400

Pronounce one consonant sound and a word that represents it

What is _? _ as in ___?

500

The soft palate

What is the velar?

500

Sounds are placed between

What are virgules or slashes?

500

Interrupting the airflow slightly

What is Liquids?

500

Two or more consonants that appear together is a word

What is a cluster?

500

Pronounce a vowel sound and word that represents it

What is _? _ as in ____?

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