Question

Define the words below and give segment(IPA Symbols) & Example words.

Examples: Bilabials: put two lips Together. e.g., p (pine), b (bind), m (mind)

voiced/voiceless

nasal/oral

stops

fricatives

affricates

liquids

glides

flap

Answer 1

voiced/ voiceless: Consonants which can be easily voiced or voiceless. e.g. voiceless: hh, sh, tt, pp

Voiced consonants posses a voice in them. e.g. uhh, mm, bb, zh.

The oral is a type of consonant which is spoken by allowing the air to escape from the mouth. e.g. [p], [w], [v]

The others are generally nasal, such as the nasal includes [m] or [?].

A stop, in phonetics, is a consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases. The occlusion may be made with the tongue blade ([t], [d]) or body ([k], [?]), lips ([p], [b]), or glottis ([?]).

A fricative consonant is a consonant that is made when you squeeze air through a small hole or gap in your mouth. For example, the gaps between your teeth can make fricative consonants; when these gaps are used, the fricatives are called sibilants. Some examples of sibilants in English are [s], [z], [?], and [?].

The English affricates, the 'ch sound' /?/ and 'j sound' /?/ are two-part consonant sounds. They begin by fully stopping the air from leaving the vocal tract (similar to a stop sound), then releasing it through a constricted opening. (similar to a fricative sound).

Liquid, in phonetics, a consonant sound in which the tongue produces a partial closure in the mouth, resulting in a resonant, vowel-like consonant, such as English l and r. Liquids may be either syllabic or nonsyllabic; i.e., they may sometimes, like vowels, act as the sound carrier in a syllable.

In phonetics and phonology, a semivowel or glide, also known as a non-syllabic vocoid, is a sound that is phonetically similar to a vowel sound but functions as the syllable boundary, rather than as the nucleus of a syllable. Examples of semivowels in English are the consonants y and w, in yes and west.

In phonetics, a flap or tap is a type of consonantal sound, which is produced with a single contraction of the muscles so that one articulator (such as the tongue) is thrown against another.e.g. latter, dupa