Consonants

Characterized by Place, Manner, and Voice

  • Place: where the sound is produced

  • Manner: how the sound is produced

  • Voice: voiced or voiceless

Place:

  • Bilabial: sound proudced with both lips touching: /p/, /b/, /m/, /w/

  • Labiodental: sound produced with top teeth touching bottom lip: /f/, /v/

  • Linguadental: sound produced with tongue in between teeth: /θ/, /ð/

  • Lingua-alveolar: sound produced with tongue touching the alveolar ridge: /t/, /d/, /s/, /z/, /n/, /l/

  • Lingua-palatal: sound produced with tongue raised to hard palate: /ʃ/, /ʒ/, /tʃ/, /dʒ/, /r/, /j/

  • Velar: sound produced with back of tongue touching soft palate: /k/, /g/, /ŋ/, /(w)/

  • Glottal: sound produced in the very back of the throat: /h/, /ʔ/

Manner:

  • Stop: sound produced with complete closure of vocal tract, airflow ceases temporarily: /p/, /b/, /t/, /d/, /k/, /g/, /ʔ/

  • Friactive: sound produced with narrow constriction, air escapes with a continuous noise: /f/, /v/, /θ/, /ð/, /s/, /z/, /ʃ/, /ʒ/, /h/

  • Affricate: sound produced as a stop followed by a fricative: /tʃ/, /dʒ/

  • Nasal: sound produced with complete oral closure and air travels through the nose: /m/, /n/, /ŋ/

  • Liquid: sound produced with vocal tract only slightly more closed than vowels: /l/, /r/

  • Glide: sound produced similarly to a vowel with short duration: /w/, /j/, /(w)/

Voice:

  • Voiced: sound produced with vocal fold vibration: /b/, /d/, /g/, /v/, /ð/, /z/, /ʒ/, /dʒ/, /l/, /m/, /n/, /ŋ/, /r/, /w/, /j/

  • Voiceless: sound produced with out vocal fold vibration ("whispher"): /p/, /t/, /k/, /f/, /θ/, /s/, /ʃ/, /h/, /tʃ/

(Bauman-Waengler, 2020)

(Shriberg, 2019)