Consonants

Consonants

1. Consonant phonemes

   • consonant, any speech sound, such as that represented by t, g, f, or z, that is characterized by an articulation with a closure or narrowing of the vocal tract such that a complete or partial blockage of the flow of air is produced.

2. Place of articulation of each consonant phoneme.

   • The ‘articulators’ are the instruments (e.g. your tongue) used to make a sound. The locations on the mouth, where the articulators are placed, are the ‘places of articulation’.

3. Manner of articulation of each consonant phoneme.

   • Manner of Articulation is the “how” of making sounds. When learning our first language, we don’t usually think about how we make the sounds we do. We just reproduce what we’ve heard over the first few years of our lives.

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