CONSONANTS PHONETIC

PLACES OF ARTICULATION CHARACTERISTICS VOWELS

• Bilabial Velar There are usually obstacles to the A speech sound which is
• Labiodental Retroflex exit of the air They can be deaf or produced by comparatively
• Dental Palattal voiced, and oral or nasal They open configuration of the vocal
• Alveolar Gottal cannot form a syllable by tract, with vibration of the vocal
• Postalveolar themselves, they need the help of a cords but without audible friction.
vowel.
CONSONANTS
MANNERS OF ARTICULATION
A basic speech sound in which the
• Stop breath is at least partly obstructed and
• Fricattives which can be combined with a vowel to
• Aproximants form a syllable.
• Africattes
• Laterals

4 DIFFERENCES BETWEEN VOWELS AND

CONSONANTS
HOW THE VOCAL CORDS WORK TO PRONOUNCE
1. Vowels are basic speech sounds articuled with A CONSONANT DIPHTHONG
an open vocal tract. A sound formed by the
2. Consonants are basic speech sound articuled Voiced consonants use the voice, these combination of two vowels in
with a partially or completely closed vocal consonants make a vibration in our vocal a single syllable, in which the
tract. cords. Deaf consonants are those that do not sound begins as one vowel
3. There are about 20 vowel sounds in English. use the voice and generally only produce a and moves toward another.
4. There are about 24 consonant sounds in short explosion of air in our mouth using the lips
English. or the tongue