Phonetics: Manners of Articulation 1.2

This exercise will give you more practice at the introductory level with identifying the manners of articulation of consonants. Remember that these features describe how articulators in the vocal tract create spaces through which airflow passes.

The main parameter in discussing manners of articulation is the proximity of articulators that results in various degrees of stricture or occlusion. There is debate as to how to classify manners of articulation. The questions of this this introductor-level focus on Standard English and the following manners: oral stop/plosive, affricate, fricative, *liquid, nasal (stop), and glide.

For each question, you will be presented a manner of articulation and be asked to select the symbol that represents the sound with that manner. The chart that is included in the 'explanation' frame refers to /l, ɹ/ as approximates. Although they may be referred to as such for specific purposes, we will label them liquids.

*That which constitutes ‘liquid’ is also a matter of debate. For simplicity, we will consider /l, ɹ/ liquids even though, at a more advanced level, you will see that /ɹ/ patterns more like an approximate.