Place of articulation

There are forty-four sounds in English and they are divided into two groups: Consonant sounds and vowel sounds. Consonant sounds are sounds whose articulation involves the contact of the organs of speech. This means that when we produce consonant sounds, our speech organs (our lips, teeth, tongue, alveolar ridge, hard palate, soft palate) make contact…

Some aspects of the IPA chart are not intuitive to me. I tend to think of "place of articulation" as "where a sound is produced" and "manner of articulation" as "how a sound is produced". Is this a

Place of articulation

This infographic from Language Base Camp shows where the sounds that English speakers use are produced in the mouth and throat.

Place of Articulation Quick NavigationPlace of ArticulationBilabialLabio-DentalDentalAlveolarPost-AlveolarPalatalVelarGlottalReviewThe diagram below gives a view of the human mouth with arrows pointing to the places of articulation used in English. In other words, these are the places where the constrictions and obstructions of air occur. On this page, I will do the following for you:Explain each of these place of articulation in […]

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In Russian, most consonants come in two different pairs: hard and soft. These “soft” consonants are palatalized. Palatalized consonants are pronounced with a palatal secondary articulat…

Places of Articulation Green underlined words are links to definitions. The active[1] articulator in all these places of articulation is some part of the tongue, except for bilabials and labiodentals (whose active articulator is the lower lip) and glottals (which have just one articulator, the glottis).

THE International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is the standardised system of phonetic notation to represent the sounds of the oral language. It is a way of making speech ‘visible.’ It is in …

Study the diagrams below and in the spaces below, state (1) the place(s) of articulation, (2) the manner of articulation of each sound. In addition, give (3) the IPA symbols and (4) descriptions of the possible phone(s) that is depicted in each illustration and (5) an example of an English word beginning with the sound(s) […]

In this post, I'm going to explain why knowing the International Phonetic Alphabet is like seeing the matrix. A common misconception that linguists often have to deal with, be it from students in Intro to Linguistics or from family members at holiday gatherings, is that Language (capital L) is basi

Sounds - Place/Voice/Manner Chart