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In articulatory phonetics, the manner of articulation is the configuration and interaction of the articulators (speech organs such as the tongue, lips, and palate) when making a speech sound. One parameter of manner is stricture, that is, how closely the speech organs approach one another. Others include those involved in the r-like sounds (taps and trills), and the sibilancy of fricatives.
A phoneme is a basic unit of a language's phonology, which is combined with other phonemes to form meaningful units such as words or morphemes. The phoneme can be described as "The smallest contrastive linguistic unit which may bring about a change of meaning". In this way the difference in meaning between the English words kill and kiss is a result of the exchange of the phoneme /l/ for the phoneme /s/. Two words that differ in meaning through a contrast of a single phoneme are called minimal pairs.
In articulatory phonetics, the place of articulation (also point of articulation) of a consonant is the point of contact where an obstruction occurs in the vocal tract between an articulatory gesture, an active articulator (typically some part of the tongue), and a passive location (typically some part of the roof of the mouth). Along with the manner of articulation and the phonation, this gives the consonant its distinctive sound.
Phonology is a branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic organization of sounds in languages. It has traditionally focused largely on study of the systems of phonemes in particular languages (and is therefore also called phonemics, or phonematics), but it may also cover any linguistic analysis either at a level beneath the word (including syllable, onset and rhyme, articulatory gestures, articulatory features, mora, etc.) or at all levels of language where sound is considered to be structured for conveying linguistic meaning. Phonology also includes the study of equivalent organizational systems in sign languages.
1 A phoneme is the smallest sound in a language
2 A consonant is a sound formed by stopping the air flowing through the mouth.
3 A word is the smallest unit of a language that can exist on its own in either written or spoken language.
4 A morpheme such as -ly, used to create an adverb cannot exist without the adjective it modifies; it is not a word, although the adjective it modifies can exist alone and, therefore, is a word:
5 Voice shows the relationship between the verb and the noun phrases connected to it. There are two voices in English; the passive and the active.
6 The Agent is the person or entity that performs the action described by a Verb. It is most commonly used in the Passive when the agent is used with 'by':
Eg.: The politician's career was ruined by the scandal.
7 alveolar ridge
A short distance behind the upper teeth is a change in the angle of the roof of the mouth. (In some people it's quite abrupt, in others very slight.) This is the alveolar ridge. Sounds which involve the area between the upper teeth and this ridge are called alveolars.
8 (hard) palate
the hard portion of the roof of the mouth. The term "palate" by itself usually refers to the hard palate.
Normal name Fancy name Adjective
lips labia labial
teeth dental
alveolar ridge alveolar
(hard) palate palatal
soft palate velum velar
uvula uvular
upper throat pharynx pharyngeal
voicebox larynx laryngeal
tongue tip apex apical
tongue blade lamina laminal
tongue body dorsum(back) dorsal
tongue root radical
Voice (phonetics), a property of speech sounds (especially consonants)
Consonant voicing and devoicing, a phonological change