Bilabial Sounds
Labiodental Sounds
Interdental Sounds
Alveolar Sounds
Mixed/Challenge
100

The repeating consonant sound in "Betty bought big blue balloons."

What is /b/?

100

The repeating consonant sound in "The furious fox fought four fierce falcons."

What is /f/?

100

The place of articulation where the tongue tip is placed between the upper and lower front teeth.

What is interdental?

100

The repeating consonant sound in "Two tiny turtles travelled together to town."

What is /t/?

100

The point of articulation for the first sound in the word paper.

What is bilabial?

200

The repeating consonant sound in "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."

What is /p/?

200

The repeating consonant sound in "Valerie drives a vibrant van."

What is /v/?

200

The sound represented by the underlined letters in "The thirsty thief thought of thirty things."

What is /θ/ (voiceless "th")?

200

The repeating consonant sound in "Danny danced happily down the dark driveway."

What is /d/?

200

The two places of articulation involved in saying the word mouth (in order).

What are bilabial and interdental?

300

 The place of articulation for the bolded letter in the word mouth.

What is bilabial? (for the /m/ sound)

300

The place of articulation for the bolded sound in the word favor.

What is labiodental?

300

The sound represented by the underlined letters in "Those there are their things."

What is /ð/ (voiced "th")?

300

The place of articulation for the underlined sound in the word nine.

What is alveolar?

300

The two places of articulation involved in saying the word fast (first and last consonant sounds).

What are labiodental and alveolar?

400

The consonant sound repeating in "My mom makes many muffins."

What is /m/?

400

The two body parts that come into contact to make a labiodental sound. Be specific!

What are the top teeth and lower lip?

400

The place of articulation for the underlined letters in the word feather.

What is interdental?

400

The repeating consonant sound in "Seven silver snakes slithered silently."

What is /s/?

400

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?

500

 The anatomical parts used to articulate a bilabial sound.

What are both lips (upper and lower lips)?

500

Between /f/ and /v/, this sound causes vocal cord vibration (is voiced).

What is /v/?

500

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/)

500

The specific ridge behind the upper teeth used to articulate /t/, /d/, and /n/.

What is the alveolar ridge?

500

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)?