Phonetics Activity Part 1

Consonants are classified by place, manner, and tongue height

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• F

Consonants differ from vowels because there HAS to be some degree constriction in the vocal tract

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• F

Made with a complete blockage of airflow follow by a quick release.

• Stops

• Fricatives

• Nasals

Where along the vocal tract a particular consonant sound is made it called

• Voicing

• Place

• Manner

These are all considered fricatives

• s, z, t

• f, v, s

• f, v, p

Glides are considered to have the least constriction/least blockage of airflow when produced?

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Nasals are produced with the velum lowered

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Affricates are a combination of a stop and glide combination

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Phoneme pairs that only differ by voicing are called

• Allographs

• Cognates

• Allophones

A syllabic on consonant (m, n, l) occurs when the consonant phoneme becomes the nucleus of the syllable.

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