Consonants and Consonant Sounds
This term is refers to letters that are not vowels. They are a basic speech sound in which the breath is at least partly obstructed and which can be combined with a vowel to form a syllable.
What are Consonants?
This sound is made when air is sent through your nose.
What are Nasals?
This is the opposite of a consonant. And a sound that is produced by the open configuration of the vocal tract.
What is a Vowel?
This sound is made when a union of three vowels (letters or sounds) are pronounced in one syllable
What is a Triphthong?
This consonant sound is made when the edge of your tongue is against your upper teeth and the tip of your tongue is free. It has 3 categories; Post Dental, Palato, and Post...
What is Alveolar?
Another word for "both lips" and are used for consonant sounds.
What is Bilabial
This sound is made when air is stopped and then exploded.
This type of Vowel sound is made when the front of the tongue is arched toward the hard palate.
What is a Front Vowel?
This is a word that is related in origin to another word that has a similar meaning in another language
What is a Cognate?
This consonant sound is made when you say the consonants "t", "L", "n" or "d".
What is Alveolar?
Where the lower lip and the upper teeth meet when saying a consonant sound.
What is Labio Dental?
This sound is made when air is forced through a very narrow opening formed by articulators, resulting in a kind of audible friction.
What is a Fricative?
This vowel sound is created when the back of your tongue is arched toward the soft palate.
What is a Back Vowel?
This consonant sound is created by the front of the tongue articulating against the hard palate
What is Palatal?
This consonant sound is articulated in the throat. This sound also comes out when you are trying to pronounce a word that begins with a vowel.
What is Glottal?
This is consonant sound can be identified by feeling a vibration in your vocal cords.
What is a Voiced Consonant?
The vowel sound is created when the middle of the tongue is arched toward a place between the hard and soft palates.
What is a Mid Vowel?
This sound is made when the back of your tongue is articulating against your soft Palate (velum). An example is the consonant "k"
What is Velar?
This consonant sound is a blend of two consonants to forming one sound.
What is an Affricate?
This consonant sound can be identified by the lack of vibration in your vocal cords. Rather, they occur by allowing air to flow freely from the lungs to the mouth.
What are Voiceless Consonants?
This sound is created when a combination of two vowels in a single syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and move toward another
What is a Diphthong?
This sound is made when you say the word "Teeth" or "Teethe". It is when the tip of your tongue articulates against the edge of your upper front teeth.
What is Dental?