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• Acoustic phonetics
  Acoustic phonetics
  Acoustic phonetics is a subfield of phonetics which deals with acoustic aspects of speech sounds. Acoustic phonetics investigates properties like the mean squared amplitude of a waveform, its duration, its fundamental frequency, or other properties of its frequency spectrum, and the relationship...
  
  
• Active articulator
• Affricate
• Airstream mechanism
  Airstream mechanism
  In phonetics, the airstream mechanism is the method by which airflow is created in the vocal tract. Along with phonation, it is one of two mandatory aspects of sound production; without these, there can be no speech sound....
  
  
• Alfred C. Gimson
  Alfred C. Gimson
  Alfred Charles Gimson was an English phonetician. He was known to generations of students and colleagues simply as 'Gim'.Gimson was educated at Emanuel School London, and University College London, where later in 1966 he became Professor of Phonetics, and in 1971 head of the Department of...
  
  
• Allophone
  Allophone
  In phonology, an allophone is one of a set of multiple possible spoken sounds used to pronounce a single phoneme. For example, and are allophones for the phoneme in the English language...
  
  
• Alveolar approximant
• Alveolar consonant
  Alveolar consonant
  Alveolar consonants are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior alveolar ridge, which is called that because it contains the alveoli of the superior teeth...
  
  
• Alveolar ejective fricative
  Alveolar ejective fricative
  The alveolar ejective fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is sʼ.-Features:Features of the alveolar ejective fricative:-Occurrence:...
  
  
• Alveolar ejective
  Alveolar ejective
  The alveolar ejective is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is .-Features:Features of the aveolar ejective:-Occurrence:...
  
  
• Alveolar flap
• Alveolar nasal
  Alveolar nasal
  The alveolar nasal is a type of consonantal sound used in numerous spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents dental, alveolar, and postalveolar nasals is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is n....
  
  
• Alveolar ridge
  Alveolar ridge
  An alveolar ridge is one of the two jaw ridges either on the roof of the mouth between the upper teeth and the hard palate or on the bottom of the mouth behind the lower teeth. The alveolar ridges contain the sockets of the teeth....
  
  
• Alveolar trill
  Alveolar trill
  The alveolar trill is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents dental, alveolar, and postalveolar trills is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is r. It is commonly called the rolled R, rolling R, or trilled R...
  
  
• Alveolo-palatal consonant
  Alveolo-palatal consonant
  In phonetics, alveolo-palatal consonants are palatalized postalveolar sounds, usually fricatives and affricates, articulated with the blade of the tongue behind the alveolar ridge, and the body of the tongue raised toward the palate...
  
  
• Apical consonant
  Apical consonant
  An apical consonant is a phone produced by obstructing the air passage with the apex of the tongue . This contrasts with laminal consonants, which are produced by creating an obstruction with the blade of the tongue .This is not a very common distinction, and typically applied only to fricatives...
  
  
• Approximant consonant
  Approximant consonant
  Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough or with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow. Therefore, approximants fall between fricatives, which do produce a turbulent airstream, and vowels, which produce no...
  
  
• Articulatory phonetics
  Articulatory phonetics
  The field of articulatory phonetics is a subfield of phonetics. In studying articulation, phoneticians explain how humans produce speech sounds via the interaction of different physiological structures....
  
  
• Aspect of articulation
• aspiration
  Aspiration (phonetics)
  In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of air that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents. To feel or see the difference between aspirated and unaspirated sounds, one can put a hand or a lit candle in front of one's mouth, and say pin ...
  
  
• Auditory phonetics
  Auditory phonetics
  Auditory phonetics is a branch of phonetics concerned with the hearing of speech sounds and with speech perception.-See also:* Acoustic phonetics* Auditory illusion* Auditory processing disorder* Hearing * Motor theory of speech perception...
  
  

B

• Back vowel
  Back vowel
  A back vowel is a type of vowel sound used in spoken languages. The defining characteristic of a back vowel is that the tongue is positioned as far back as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant. Back vowels are sometimes also called dark...
  
  
• Bilabial click
  Bilabial click
  The bilabial clicks are a family of click consonants that sound something like a smack of the lips. They are found as phonemes only in the small Tuu language family, in the language of Botswana, and in the extinct Damin ritual jargon of Australia....
  
  
• Bilabial consonant
  Bilabial consonant
  In phonetics, a bilabial consonant is a consonant articulated with both lips. The bilabial consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet are:...
  
  
• Bilabial ejective
  Bilabial ejective
  The bilabial ejective is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is pʼ.-Features:Features of the bilabial ejective:-Occurrence:...
  
  
• Bilabial nasal
  Bilabial nasal
  The bilabial nasal is a type of consonantal sound used in almost all spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is m...
  
  
• Bilabial trill
  Bilabial trill
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• Breathy voice
  Breathy voice
  Breathy voice is a phonation in which the vocal cords vibrate, as they do in normal voicing, but are held further apart, so that a larger volume of air escapes between them. This produces an audible noise...
  
  

C

• Cardinal vowel
  Cardinal vowel
  Cardinal vowels are a set of reference vowels used by phoneticians in describing the sounds of languages. For instance, the vowel of the English word "feet" can be described with reference to cardinal vowel 1, , which is the cardinal vowel closest to it....
  
  
• Central consonant
  Central consonant
  A central or medial consonant is a consonant sound that is produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the tongue. The class contrasts with lateral consonants, in which air flows over the sides of the tongue rather than down its center....
  
  
• Central vowel
  Central vowel
  A central vowel is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The defining characteristic of a central vowel is that the tongue is positioned halfway between a front vowel and a back vowel...
  
  
• Checked vowel
• Click consonant
  Click consonant
  Clicks are speech sounds found as consonants in many languages of southern Africa, and in three languages of East Africa. Examples of these sounds familiar to English speakers are the tsk! tsk! or tut-tut used to express disapproval or pity, the tchick! used to spur on a horse, and the...
  
  
• Close back rounded vowel
  Close back rounded vowel
  The close back rounded vowel, or high back rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in many spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is u....
  
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• Close back unrounded vowel
  Close back unrounded vowel
  The close back unrounded vowel, or high back unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is . Typographically a turned letter m, given its relation to the sound represented by the letter u it...
  
   (ɯ)
• Close central rounded vowel (ʉ)
• Close central unrounded vowel
  Close central unrounded vowel
  The close central unrounded vowel, or high central unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound used in some languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is . The IPA symbol is the letter i with a horizontal bar...
  
   (ɨ)
• Close front rounded vowel
  Close front rounded vowel
  The close front rounded vowel, or high front rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is y...
  
   (y)
• Close front unrounded vowel
  Close front unrounded vowel
  The close front unrounded vowel, or high front unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in many spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ....
  
   (i)
• Close vowel
  Close vowel
  A close vowel is a type of vowel sound used in many spoken languages. The defining characteristic of a close vowel is that the tongue is positioned as close as possible to the roof of the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.This term is prescribed by the...
  
  
• Close-mid back rounded vowel (o)
• Close-mid back unrounded vowel
  Close-mid back unrounded vowel
  The close-mid back unrounded vowel, or high-mid back unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. Its symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is , called "ram's horns"...
  
   (ɤ)
• Close-mid central rounded vowel (ɵ)
• Close-mid central unrounded vowel
  Close-mid central unrounded vowel
  The close-mid central unrounded vowel, or high-mid central unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is . This is a reversed letter e, and should not be confused with the schwa or turned e ǝ...
  
   (ɘ)
• Close-mid front rounded vowel
  Close-mid front rounded vowel
  The close-mid front rounded vowel, or high-mid front rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , a lowercase letter o with a diagonal stroke through it, derived from the Danish, Norwegian...
  
   (ø)
• Close-mid front unrounded vowel
  Close-mid front unrounded vowel
  The close-mid front unrounded vowel, or high-mid front unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ....
  
   (e)
• Close-mid vowel
  Close-mid vowel
  A close-mid vowel is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The defining characteristic of a close-mid vowel is that the tongue is positioned two-thirds of the way from a close vowel to a mid vowel...
  
  
• Co-articulated consonant
  Co-articulated consonant
  Co-articulated consonants or complex consonants are consonants produced with two simultaneous places of articulation. They may be divided into two classes, doubly articulated consonants with two primary places of articulation of the same manner , and consonants with secondary articulation, that is,...
  
  
• Coarticulation
  Coarticulation
  Coarticulation in its general sense refers to a situation in which a conceptually isolated speech sound is influenced by, and becomes more like, a preceding or following speech sound...
  
  
• Consonant
  Consonant
  In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract. Examples are , pronounced with the lips; , pronounced with the front of the tongue; , pronounced with the back of the tongue; , pronounced in the throat; and ,...
  
  
• Creaky voice
  Creaky voice
  In linguistics, creaky voice , is a special kind of phonation in which the arytenoid cartilages in the larynx are drawn together; as a result, the vocal folds are compressed rather tightly, becoming relatively slack and compact...
  
  

D

• Daniel Jones
  Daniel Jones (phonetician)
  Daniel Jones was a London-born British phonetician. A pupil of Paul Passy, professor of phonetics at the École des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne , Daniel Jones is considered by many to be the greatest phonetician of the early 20th century...
  
  
• Dental click
  Dental click
  Dental clicks are a family of click consonants found, as constituents of words, only in Africa and in the Damin ritual jargon of Australia. The tut-tut! or tsk! tsk! sound used to express disapproval or pity is a dental click, although it isn't a speech sound in that context.The symbol in the...
  
  
• Dental consonant
• Dental ejective
  Dental ejective
  The dental ejective is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is .-Features:Features of the dental ejective:-Occurrence:...
  
  
• Dental nasal
  Dental nasal
  The dental nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is .-Features:Features of the dental nasal:- Occurrence :...
  
  
• Diphthong
  Diphthong
  A diphthong , also known as a gliding vowel, refers to two adjacent vowel sounds occurring within the same syllable. Technically, a diphthong is a vowel with two different targets: That is, the tongue moves during the pronunciation of the vowel...
  
  

E

• Eclipsis
• Ejective consonant
  Ejective consonant
  In phonetics, ejective consonants are voiceless consonants that are pronounced with simultaneous closure of the glottis. In the phonology of a particular language, ejectives may contrast with aspirated or tenuis consonants...
  
  
• Elision
  Elision
  Elision is the omission of one or more sounds in a word or phrase, producing a result that is easier for the speaker to pronounce...
  
  
• Epenthesis
  Epenthesis
  In phonology, epenthesis is the addition of one or more sounds to a word, especially to the interior of a word. Epenthesis may be divided into two types: excrescence, for the addition of a consonant, and anaptyxis for the addition of a vowel....
  
  
• Epiglottal consonant
  Epiglottal consonant
  An epiglottal consonant is a consonant that is articulated with the aryepiglottic folds against the epiglottis. They are occasionally called aryepiglottal consonants.-Epiglottal consonants in the IPA:...
  
  
• Epiglottal plosive
  Epiglottal plosive
  The epiglottal plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is .-Features:Features of the epiglottal plosive:...
  
  

F

• Formant
  Formant
  Formants are defined by Gunnar Fant as 'the spectral peaks of the sound spectrum |P|' of the voice. In speech science and phonetics, formant is also used to mean an acoustic resonance of the human vocal tract...
  
  
• Fortis (phonetics)
• Fortis and lenis
  Fortis and lenis
  In linguistics, fortis and lenis are terms generally used to refer to groups of consonants that are produced with greater and lesser energy, respectively, such as in energy applied, articulation, etc....
  
  
• Free vowel
• Fricative consonant
  Fricative consonant
  Fricatives are consonants produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together. These may be the lower lip against the upper teeth, in the case of ; the back of the tongue against the soft palate, in the case of German , the final consonant of Bach; or...
  
  
• Front vowel
  Front vowel
  A front vowel is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The defining characteristic of a front vowel is that the tongue is positioned as far in front as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant. Front vowels are sometimes also...
  
  

G

• Gemination
  Gemination
  In phonetics, gemination happens when a spoken consonant is pronounced for an audibly longer period of time than a short consonant. Gemination is distinct from stress and may appear independently of it....
  
  
• Glottis
  Glottis
  The glottis is defined as the combination of the vocal folds and the space in between the folds .-Function:...
  
  
• Glottal consonant
  Glottal consonant
  Glottal consonants, also called laryngeal consonants, are consonants articulated with the glottis. Many phoneticians consider them, or at least the so-called fricative, to be transitional states of the glottis without a point of articulation as other consonants have; in fact, some do not consider...
  
  
• Glottalic consonant
  Glottalic consonant
  A glottalic consonant is a consonant produced with some important contribution of the glottis ....
  
   (ingressive, egressive)
• Glottal stop
  Glottal stop
  The glottal stop, or more fully, the voiceless glottal plosive, is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages. In English, the feature is represented, for example, by the hyphen in uh-oh! and by the apostrophe or [[ʻokina]] in Hawaii among those using a preservative pronunciation of...
  
  

I

• Implosive consonant
  Implosive consonant
  Implosive consonants are stops with a mixed glottalic ingressive and pulmonic egressive airstream mechanism. That is, the airstream is controlled by moving the glottis downward in addition to expelling air from the lungs. Therefore, unlike the purely glottalic ejective consonants, implosives can...
  
  
• Ingressive speech
• International Phonetic Alphabet
  International Phonetic Alphabet
  The International Phonetic Alphabet "The acronym 'IPA' strictly refers [...] to the 'International Phonetic Association'. But it is now such a common practice to use the acronym also to refer to the alphabet itself that resistance seems pedantic...
  
  
• International Phonetic Association
  International Phonetic Association
  The International Phonetic Association is an organization that promotes the scientific study of phonetics and the various practical applications of that science. The IPA’s major contribution to phonetics is the International Phonetic Alphabet—a notational standard for the phonetic...
  
  
• Intonation
  Intonation (linguistics)
  In linguistics, intonation is variation of pitch while speaking which is not used to distinguish words. It contrasts with tone, in which pitch variation does distinguish words. Intonation, rhythm, and stress are the three main elements of linguistic prosody...
  
  

L

• Labialization
• Labial-palatal approximant
  Labial-palatal approximant
  The labialized palatal approximant, also called the labial–palatal or labio-palatal approximant, is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. It has two constrictions in the vocal tract: with the tongue on the palate, and rounded at the lips. The symbol in the International...
  
  
• Labial-palatal consonant
• Labial-velar approximant
• Labial-velar consonant
  Labial-velar consonant
  Labial–velar consonants are doubly articulated at the velum and the lips. They are sometimes called "labiovelar consonants", a term that can also refer to labialized velars, such as and the approximant ....
  
  
• Labiodental approximant
  Labiodental approximant
  The labiodental approximant is a type of consonantal sound, similar to an English double-u pronounced with the teeth and lips held in the position used to articulate the letter vee, used in some spoken languages...
  
  
• Labiodental consonant
  Labiodental consonant
  In phonetics, labiodentals are consonants articulated with the lower lip and the upper teeth.-Labiodental consonant in IPA:The labiodental consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet are:...
  
  
• Labiodental nasal
• Laminal consonant
  Laminal consonant
  A laminal consonant is a phone produced by obstructing the air passage with the blade of the tongue, which is the flat top front surface just behind the tip of the tongue on the top. This contrasts with apical consonants, which are produced by creating an obstruction with the tongue apex only...
  
  
• Lateral alveolar approximant
• Lateral alveolar click
  Lateral alveolar click
  The lateral clicks are a family of click consonants found only in African languages. The clicking sound used by equestrians to urge on their horses is a lateral click, although it is not a speech sound in that context. Alveolar lateral clicks are found throughout southern Africa and in two...
  
  
• Lateral alveolar flap
• Lateral consonant
  Lateral consonant
  A lateral is an el-like consonant, in which airstream proceeds along the sides of the tongue, but is blocked by the tongue from going through the middle of the mouth....
  
  
• Lateral palatal approximant
• Lateral retroflex approximant
• Lateral velar approximant
• Length (phonetics)
  Length (phonetics)
  In phonetics, length or quantity is a feature of sounds that are distinctively longer than other sounds. There are long vowels as well as long consonants .Many languages do not have distinctive length...
  
  
• Lenis
• Lexical stress
• Linguolabial consonant
  Linguolabial consonant
  Linguolabials or apicolabials are consonants articulated by placing the tongue tip or blade against the upper lip, which is drawn downward to meet the tongue. They represent one extreme of a coronal articulatory continuum which extends from linguolabial to subapical palatal places of articulation...
  
  
• Lip
  Lip
  Lips are a visible body part at the mouth of humans and many animals. Lips are soft, movable, and serve as the opening for food intake and in the articulation of sound and speech...
  
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• Liquid consonant
  Liquid consonant
  In phonetics, liquids or liquid consonants are a class of consonants consisting of lateral consonants together with rhotics.-Description:...
  
  
• List of consonants
• List of vowels

M

• Ian Maddieson
  Ian Maddieson
  Ian Maddieson is a linguist at UC Berkeley, an Adjunct Professor Emeritus at the University of New Mexico, Vice-President of the International Phonetic Association, and Secretary of the Association for Laboratory Phonology...
  
  
• Manner of articulation
  Manner of articulation
  In linguistics, manner of articulation describes how the tongue, lips, jaw, and other speech organs are involved in making a sound. Often the concept is only used for the production of consonants, even though the movement of the articulars will also greatly alter the resonant properties of the...
  
  
• Metathesis
  Metathesis (linguistics)
  Metathesis is the re-arranging of sounds or syllables in a word, or of words in a sentence. Most commonly it refers to the switching of two or more contiguous sounds, known as adjacent metathesis or local metathesis:...
  
  
• Mid central vowel (ə)
• Mid vowel
  Mid vowel
  A mid vowel is a vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The defining characteristic of a mid vowel is that the tongue is positioned mid-way between an open vowel and a close vowel...
  
  
• Monophthong
  Monophthong
  A monophthong is a pure vowel sound, one whose articulation at both beginning and end is relatively fixed, and which does not glide up or down towards a new position of articulation....
  
  

N

• Nasal consonant
  Nasal consonant
  A nasal consonant is a type of consonant produced with a lowered velum in the mouth, allowing air to escape freely through the nose. Examples of nasal consonants in English are and , in words such as nose and mouth.- Definition :...
  
  
• Nasal vowel
  Nasal vowel
  A nasal vowel is a vowel that is produced with a lowering of the velum so that air escapes both through nose as well as the mouth. By contrast, oral vowels are ordinary vowels without this nasalisation...
  
  
• Nasalization
  Nasalization
  In phonetics, nasalization is the production of a sound while the velum is lowered, so that some air escapes through the nose during the production of the sound by the mouth...
  
  
• Near-back vowel
  Near-back vowel
  A near-back vowel is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The defining characteristic of a near-back vowel is that the tongue is positioned as in a back vowel, but slightly further forward in the mouth...
  
  
• Near-close near-back rounded vowel (ʊ)
• Near-close near-front rounded vowel (ʏ)
• Near-close near-front unrounded vowel (ɪ)
• Near-close vowel
  Near-close vowel
  A near-close vowel is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The defining characteristic of a near-close vowel is that the tongue is positioned similarly to a close vowel, but slightly less constricted. Near-close vowels are sometimes described as lax variants of the fully close vowels...
  
  
• Near-front vowel
  Near-front vowel
  A near-front vowel is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The defining characteristic of a near-front vowel is that the tongue is positioned as in a front vowel, but slightly further back in the mouth. The near-front vowels identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet are:*...
  
  
• Near-open central vowel (ɐ)
• Near-open front unrounded vowel (æ)
• Near-open vowel
  Near-open vowel
  A near-open vowel is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The defining characteristic of a near-open vowel is that the tongue is positioned similarly to an open vowel, but slightly more constricted. Near-open vowels are sometimes described as lax variants of the fully open vowels...
  
  

O

• Occlusion
• Open back rounded vowel
  Open back rounded vowel
  The open back rounded vowel, or low back rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is . The symbol is called turned script a, because it is a rotated version of script a, so-called because it...
  
   (ɒ)
• Open back unrounded vowel (ɑ)
• Open front rounded vowel
  Open front rounded vowel
  The open front rounded vowel, or low front rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, not confirmed to be phonemic in any spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is &. The symbol is a small caps rendition...
  
   (ɶ)
• Open front unrounded vowel (a)
• Open vowel
  Open vowel
  An open vowel is defined as a vowel sound in which the tongue is positioned as far as possible from the roof of the mouth. Open vowels are sometimes also called low vowels in reference to the low position of the tongue...
  
  
• Open-mid back rounded vowel (ɔ)
• Open-mid back unrounded vowel (ʌ)
• Open-mid central rounded vowel
  Open-mid central rounded vowel
  The open-mid central rounded vowel, or low-mid central rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is 3\...
  
   (ɞ)
• Open-mid central unrounded vowel (ɜ)
• Open-mid front rounded vowel (œ)
• Open-mid front unrounded vowel (ɛ)
• Open-mid vowel
  Open-mid vowel
  An open-mid vowel is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The defining characteristic of an open-mid vowel is that the tongue is positioned two-thirds of the way from an open vowel to a mid vowel...
  
  
• Oral consonant
  Oral consonant
  An oral consonant is a consonant sound in speech that is made by allowing air to escape from the mouth, as opposed to the nose. To create an intended oral consonant sound, the entire mouth plays a role in modifying the air's passageway. This rapid modification of the air passageway using the tongue...
  
  

P

• Palatal approximant
  Palatal approximant
  The palatal approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is '...
  
  
• Palatal click
  Palatal click
  The palato-alveolar clicks are a family of click consonants found only in Africa. They are commonly called palatal clicks.The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the place of articulation of these sounds is , a pipe...
  
  
• Palatal consonant
  Palatal consonant
  Palatal consonants are consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the hard palate...
  
  
• Palatal ejective
  Palatal ejective
  The palatal ejective is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is c_>.-Features:Features of the palatal ejective:...
  
  
• Palatal nasal
  Palatal nasal
  The palatal nasal is a type of consonant, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , a lowercase letter n with a leftward-pointing tail protruding from the bottom of the left stem of the letter. The equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is J...
  
  
• Palatalization
  Palatalization
  In linguistics, palatalization , also palatization, may refer to two different processes by which a sound, usually a consonant, comes to be produced with the tongue in a position in the mouth near the palate....
  
  
• Pāṇini
• Passive articulator
• Peter Ladefoged
  Peter Ladefoged
  Peter Nielsen Ladefoged was an English-American linguist and phonetician who traveled the world to document the distinct sounds of endangered languages and pioneered ways to collect and study data . He was active at the universities of Edinburgh, Scotland and Ibadan, Nigeria 1953–61...
  
  
• Pharyngeal consonant
  Pharyngeal consonant
  A pharyngeal consonant is a type of consonant which is articulated with the root of the tongue against the pharynx.-Pharyngeal consonants in the IPA:Pharyngeal consonants in the International Phonetic Alphabet :...
  
  
• Pharyngealisation
  Pharyngealisation
  -Further reading:*Ian Maddieson, -See also:*Velarization*Creaky voice *Pharyngeal consonant*Epiglottal consonant*Pharynx...
  
  
• Phonation
  Phonation
  Phonation has slightly different meanings depending on the subfield of phonetics. Among some phoneticians, phonation is the process by which the vocal folds produce certain sounds through quasi-periodic vibration. This is the definition used among those who study laryngeal anatomy and physiology...
  
  
• Phone
• Phoneme
  Phoneme
  In a language or dialect, a phoneme is the smallest segmental unit of sound employed to form meaningful contrasts between utterances....
  
  
• Phonetic palindrome
  Phonetic palindrome
  A phonetic palindrome is a portion of sound or phrase of speech which is identical or roughly identical when reversed.Some phonetic palindromes must be mechanically reversed, involving the use of sound recording equipment or reverse tape effects...
  
  
• Phonetic reversal
  Phonetic reversal
  Phonetic reversal is the process of reversing the phonemes of a word or phrase. When the reversal is identical to the original, the word or phrase is called a phonetic palindrome. Phonetic reversal is not entirely identical to backmasking, which is specifically the reversal of recorded sound...
  
  
• Phonetics
  Phonetics
  Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that comprises the study of the sounds of human speech, or—in the case of sign languages—the equivalent aspects of sign. It is concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds or signs : their physiological production, acoustic properties, auditory...
  
  
• Phonetic transcription
  Phonetic transcription
  Phonetic transcription is the visual representation of speech sounds . The most common type of phonetic transcription uses a phonetic alphabet, e.g., the International Phonetic Alphabet....
  
  
• Pitch accent
  Pitch accent
  Pitch accent is a linguistic term of convenience for a variety of restricted tone systems that use variations in pitch to give prominence to a syllable or mora within a word. The placement of this tone or the way it is realized can give different meanings to otherwise similar words...
  
  
• Place of articulation
  Place of articulation
  In articulatory phonetics, the place 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 , and a passive location...
  
  
• Plosive consonant
• Postalveolar click
  Postalveolar click
  The alveolar or postalveolar clicks are a family of click consonants found only in Africa and in the Damin ritual jargon of Australia.The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the place of articulation of these sounds is...
  
  
• Postalveolar consonant
  Postalveolar consonant
  Postalveolar consonants are consonants articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge, further back in the mouth than the alveolar consonants, which are at the ridge itself, but not as far back as the hard palate...
  
  
• Preaspiration
  Preaspiration
  In phonetics, preaspiration is a period of voicelessness or aspiration preceding the closure of a voiceless obstruent, basically equivalent to an -like sound preceding the obstruent. In other words, when an obstruent is preaspirated, the glottis is opened for some time before the obstruent closure...
  
  
• Prenasalized consonant
  Prenasalized consonant
  Prenasalized consonants are phonetic sequences of a nasal and an obstruent that behave phonologically like single consonants. The reasons for considering these sequences to be single consonants is in their behavior, not in their actual composition...
  
  
• Prosody
  Prosody (linguistics)
  In linguistics, prosody is the rhythm, stress, and intonation of speech. Prosody may reflect various features of the speaker or the utterance: the emotional state of the speaker; the form of the utterance ; the presence of irony or sarcasm; emphasis, contrast, and focus; or other elements of...
  
  
• Pulmonic egressive

R

• R-colored vowel
  R-colored vowel
  In phonetics, an R-colored or rhotic vowel is a vowel that is modified in a way that results in a lowering in frequency of the third formant...
  
  
• Retroflex approximant
• Retroflex consonant
  Retroflex consonant
  A retroflex consonant is a coronal consonant where the tongue has a flat, concave, or even curled shape, and is articulated between the alveolar ridge and the hard palate. They are sometimes referred to as cerebral consonants, especially in Indology...
  
  
• Retroflex flap
• Retroflex nasal
• Rhotic consonant
  Rhotic consonant
  In phonetics, rhotic consonants, also called tremulants or "R-like" sounds, are liquid consonants that are traditionally represented orthographically by symbols derived from the Greek letter rho, including "R, r" from the Roman alphabet and "Р, p" from the Cyrillic alphabet...
  
  
• Roman Phonetic Alphabet for English
• Rounded vowel

S

• Sandhi
  Sandhi
  Sandhi is a cover term for a wide variety of phonological processes that occur at morpheme or word boundaries . Examples include the fusion of sounds across word boundaries and the alteration of sounds due to neighboring sounds or due to the grammatical function of adjacent words...
  
  
• SAMPA
  SAMPA
  The Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet is a computer-readable phonetic script using 7-bit printable ASCII characters, based on the International Phonetic Alphabet ....
  
  
• Semivowel
  Semivowel
  In phonetics and phonology, a semivowel is a sound, such as English or , that is phonetically similar to a vowel sound but functions as the syllable boundary rather than as the nucleus of a syllable.-Classification:...
  
  
• Sibilant consonant
  Sibilant consonant
  A sibilant is a manner of articulation of fricative and affricate consonants, made by directing a stream of air with the tongue towards the sharp edge of the teeth, which are held close together. Examples of sibilants are the consonants at the beginning of the English words sip, zip, ship, chip,...
  
  
• Slack voice
  Slack voice
  The term slack voice describes the pronunciation of consonant or vowels with a glottal opening slightly wider than that occurring in modal voice. Such sounds are often referred to informally as lenis or half-voiced in the case of consonants...
  
  
• Sonorant
  Sonorant
  In phonetics and phonology, a sonorant is a speech sound that is produced without turbulent airflow in the vocal tract; fricatives and plosives are not sonorants. Vowels are sonorants, as are consonants like and . Other consonants, like or , restrict the airflow enough to cause turbulence, and...
  
  
• Source–filter model of speech production
• Spectrogram
  Spectrogram
  A spectrogram is a time-varying spectral representation that shows how the spectral density of a signal varies with time. Also known as spectral waterfalls, sonograms, voiceprints, or voicegrams, spectrograms are used to identify phonetic sounds, to analyse the cries of animals; they were also...
  
  
• Speech organ
  Speech organ
  Speech organs produce the many sounds needed for language. Organs used include the lips, teeth, tongue, alveolar ridge, hard palate, velum , uvula and glottis....
  
  
• Speech perception
  Speech perception
  Speech perception is the process by which the sounds of language are heard, interpreted and understood. The study of speech perception is closely linked to the fields of phonetics and phonology in linguistics and cognitive psychology and perception in psychology...
  
  
• Stress accent
• Stress (linguistics)
  Stress (linguistics)
  In linguistics, stress is the relative emphasis that may be given to certain syllables in a word, or to certain words in a phrase or sentence. The term is also used for similar patterns of phonetic prominence inside syllables. The word accent is sometimes also used with this sense.The stress placed...
  
  
• Stricture
  Stricture
  Stricture may refer to:* esophageal stricture, in medicine* stenosis, in medicine* a feature of the Perl programming language* tenet, in religion* degree of contact, in a consonant...
  
  
• Syllable
  Syllable
  A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds. For example, the word water is composed of two syllables: wa and ter. A syllable is typically made up of a syllable nucleus with optional initial and final margins .Syllables are often considered the phonological "building...
  
  
• Syncope

T

• Table of vowels
  Table of vowels
  This table lists the vowel letters of the International Phonetic Alphabet.- Vowel fact sheet :...
  
  
• Tap or flap consonant
• Teeth
• Tenseness
  Tenseness
  In phonology, tenseness is a particular vowel quality that is phonemically contrastive in many languages, including English. It has also occasionally been used to describe contrasts in consonants. Unlike most distinctive features, the feature [tense] can be interpreted only relatively, that is, in...
  
  
• Tonal language
• Tone sandhi
  Tone sandhi
  Tone sandhi is a feature of tonal languages in which the tones assigned to individual words vary based on the pronunciation of the words that surround them in a phrase or sentence. It is a type of sandhi, or fusional change, from the Sanskrit word for "joining".-Languages with tone sandhi:Not all...
  
  
• Tongue
  Tongue
  The tongue is a muscular hydrostat on the floors of the mouths of most vertebrates which manipulates food for mastication. It is the primary organ of taste , as much of the upper surface of the tongue is covered in papillae and taste buds. It is sensitive and kept moist by saliva, and is richly...
  
  
• Trill consonant
  Trill consonant
  In phonetics, a trill is a consonantal sound produced by vibrations between the articulator and the place of articulation. Standard Spanish <rr> as in perro is an alveolar trill, while in Parisian French it is almost always uvular....
  
  
• Triphthong
  Triphthong
  In phonetics, a triphthong is a monosyllabic vowel combination involving a quick but smooth movement of the articulator from one vowel quality to another that passes over a third...
  
  

U

• Unrounded vowel
• Uvula
  Uvula
  The palatine uvula, usually referred to as simply the uvula , is the conic projection from the posterior edge of the middle of the soft palate, composed of connective tissue containing a number of racemose glands, and some muscular fibers .-Function in language:The uvula plays a role in the...
  
  
• Uvular consonant
  Uvular consonant
  Uvulars are consonants articulated with the back of the tongue against or near the uvula, that is, further back in the mouth than velar consonants. Uvulars may be plosives, fricatives, nasal stops, trills, or approximants, though the IPA does not provide a separate symbol for the approximant, and...
  
  
• Uvular ejective
  Uvular ejective
  The uvular ejective is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is .-Features:Features of the uvular ejective:-Occurrence:One ejective...
  
  
• Uvular nasal
• Uvular trill
  Uvular trill
  The uvular trill is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , a small capital R...
  
  

V

• Velar approximant
• Velar consonant
  Velar consonant
  Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth, known also as the velum)....
  
  
• Velar ejective
  Velar ejective
  The velar ejective is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is kʼ.-Features:Features of the velar ejective:-Occurs in:...
  
  
• Velar nasal
  Velar nasal
  The velar nasal is the sound of ng in English sing. It is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is N....
  
  
• Velaric egressive
• Velarization
  Velarization
  Velarization is a secondary articulation of consonants by which the back of the tongue is raised toward the velum during the articulation of the consonant.In the International Phonetic Alphabet, velarization is transcribed by one of three diacritics:...
  
  
• Velum
  Velum
  Velum may refer to:* Superior medullary velum, part of the nervous system that stretches between parts of the brain* Veil , the veil-like membrane of immature mushrooms extending from the margin of the cap to the stem and torn by growth...
  
  
• Vocal cords
• Vocal stress
• Vocal tract
  Vocal tract
  The vocal tract is the cavity in human beings and in animals where sound that is produced at the sound source is filtered....
  
  
• Voice onset time
  Voice onset time
  In phonetics, voice onset time, commonly abbreviated VOT, is a feature of the production of stop consonants. It is defined as the length of time that passes between when a stop consonant is released and when voicing, the vibration of the vocal folds, or, according to the authors, periodicity begins...
  
  
• Voiced alveolar affricate
  Voiced alveolar affricate
  The voiced alveolar affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The sound is transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet with ⟨⟩ or ⟨⟩ , and the equivalent X-SAMPA representation is ⟨dz⟩.-Features:...
  
  
• Voiced alveolar fricative
  Voiced alveolar fricative
  The voiced alveolar fricatives are consonantal sounds. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents these sounds depends on whether a sibilant or non-sibilant fricative is being described....
  
  
• Voiced alveolar implosive
• Voiced alveolar lateral fricative
• Voiced alveolar plosive
  Voiced alveolar plosive
  The voiced alveolar plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiced dental, alveolar, and postalveolar plosives is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is d.-Features:Features of the voiced...
  
  
• Voiced alveolo-palatal affricate
• Voiced alveolo-palatal fricative
• Voiced bilabial fricative
  Voiced bilabial fricative
  -See also:* List of phonetics topics...
  
  
• Voiced bilabial implosive
• Voiced bilabial plosive
  Voiced bilabial plosive
  The voiced bilabial plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is b. The voiced bilabial plosive occurs in English, and it is the sound denoted by the...
  
  
• Voiced consonant
• Voiced dental affricate
• Voiced dental fricative
  Voiced dental fricative
  The voiced dental non-sibilant fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound, eth, is . The symbol was taken from the Old English letter eth, which could stand for either a voiced or unvoiced...
  
  
• Voiced dental implosive
• Voiced dental plosive
  Voiced dental plosive
  The voiced dental plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is...
  
  
• Voiced epiglottal fricative
• Voiced glottal fricative
• Voiced implosive consonant
• Voiced labiodental fricative
  Voiced labiodental fricative
  The voiced labiodental fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is v....
  
  
• Voiced palatal fricative
• Voiced palatal implosive
  Voiced palatal implosive
  The voiced palatal implosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is J\_<...
  
  
• Voiced palatal plosive
  Voiced palatal plosive
  The voiced palatal plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨⟩, a barred dotless ⟨j⟩ , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is J\.The sound does not exist as a phoneme in English, but is...
  
  
• Voiced pharyngeal fricative
  Voiced pharyngeal fricative
  The voiced pharyngeal approximant or fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents it is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is ?\....
  
  
• Voiced postalveolar affricate
  Voiced postalveolar affricate
  The voiced palato-alveolar affricate, also described as voiced domed postalveolar affricate, is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The sound is transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet with ⟨⟩ , and the equivalent X-SAMPA representation is ⟨dZ⟩...
  
  
• Voiced postalveolar fricative
  Voiced postalveolar fricative
  The voiced palato-alveolar fricative or voiced domed postalveolar fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is Z. An alternative symbol used in some...
  
  
• Voiced retroflex affricate
  Voiced retroflex affricate
  The voiced retroflex affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound are , sometimes simplified to ,...
  
  
• Voiced retroflex fricative
• Voiced retroflex plosive
  Voiced retroflex plosive
  The voiced retroflex plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is d`. The IPA symbol is a lowercase letter d with a rightward-pointing tail protruding...
  
  
• Voiced uvular fricative
• Voiced uvular implosive
  Voiced uvular implosive
  The voiced uvular implosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , a small capital letter G with a rightward pointing hook extending from the upper right of the letter.-Occurrence:-Fun Fact:The...
  
  
• Voiced uvular plosive
• Voiced velar fricative
  Voiced velar fricative
  The voiced velar fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in various spoken languages. It is not found in English today, but did exist in Old English...
  
  
• Voiced velar implosive
  Voiced velar implosive
  The voiced velar implosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is g_<.-Occurrence:...
  
  
• Voiced velar plosive
  Voiced velar plosive
  The voiced velar plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is g. Strictly, the IPA symbol is the so-called "opentail G" , though the "looptail G" is...
  
  
• Voiceless alveolar affricate
  Voiceless alveolar affricate
  The voiceless alveolar affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The sound is transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet with ⟨⟩ or ⟨⟩ . The voiceless alveolar affricate occurs in such languages as German, Cantonese, Italian, Russian, Japanese and Mandarin...
  
  
• Voiceless alveolar fricative
  Voiceless alveolar fricative
  The voiceless alveolar sibilant is a common consonant sound in spoken languages. It is the sound in English words such as sea and pass, and is represented in the International Phonetic Alphabet as . It has a characteristic high-pitched, highly perceptible hissing sound...
  
  
• Voiceless alveolar lateral affricate
  Voiceless alveolar lateral affricate
  The voiceless alveolar lateral affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is , and in Americanist phonetic notation it is .-Features:...
  
  
• Voiceless alveolar lateral fricative
  Voiceless alveolar lateral fricative
  The voiceless alveolar lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiceless dental, alveolar, and postalveolar fricatives is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is K...
  
  
• Voiceless alveolar nasal
• Voiceless alveolar plosive
  Voiceless alveolar plosive
  The voiceless alveolar plosive is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiceless dental, alveolar, and postalveolar plosives is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is t...
  
  
• Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate
• Voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative
• Voiceless bilabial fricative
  Voiceless bilabial fricative
  -See also:* List of phonetics topics...
  
  
• Voiceless bilabial nasal
• Voiceless bilabial plosive
  Voiceless bilabial plosive
  The voiceless bilabial plosive is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is p...
  
  
• Voiceless consonant
• Voiceless dental affricate
• Voiceless dental fricative
  Voiceless dental fricative
  The voiceless dental non-sibilant fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. It is familiar to English speakers as the 'th' in thing. Though rather rare as a phoneme in the world's inventory of languages, it is encountered in some of the most widespread and influential...
  
  
• Voiceless dental plosive
  Voiceless dental plosive
  The voiceless dental plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is t_d...
  
  
• Voiceless epiglottal fricative
• Voiceless glottal fricative
  Voiceless glottal fricative
  The voiceless glottal transition, commonly called a "fricative", is a type of sound used in some spoken languages which patterns like a fricative or approximant consonant phonologically, but often lacks the usual phonetic characteristics of a consonant...
  
  
• Voiceless glottal plosive
• Voiceless labial-velar fricative
• Voiceless labiodental affricate
  Voiceless labiodental affricate
  A voiceless labiodental affricate is a rare affricate consonant that is initiated as a labiodental plosive and released as a voiceless labiodental fricative ....
  
  
• Voiceless labiodental fricative
  Voiceless labiodental fricative
  The voiceless labiodental fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is .-Features:Features of the voiceless labiodental fricative:...
  
  
• Voiceless palatal affricate
  Voiceless palatal affricate
  The voiceless palatal affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is . The voiceless palatal affricate occurs in such languages as Hungarian and Skolt Sami, amongst others. The consonant is...
  
  
• Voiceless palatal fricative
  Voiceless palatal fricative
  The voiceless palatal fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is . The symbol ç is the letter c with a cedilla, as used to spell French words such as façade...
  
  
• Voiceless palatal lateral affricate
  Voiceless palatal lateral affricate
  The voiceless palatal lateral affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is or .-Features:Features of the voiceless alveolar lateral affricate:-Occurrence:...
  
  
• Voiceless palatal nasal
• Voiceless palatal plosive
  Voiceless palatal plosive
  The voiceless palatal plosive is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is c....
  
  
• Voiceless pharyngeal fricative
  Voiceless pharyngeal fricative
  The voiceless pharyngeal fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is h-bar .-Features:Features of the voiceless pharyngeal fricative:...
  
  
• Voiceless postalveolar affricate
  Voiceless postalveolar affricate
  The voiceless palato-alveolar affricate or domed postalveolar affricate is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The sound is transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet with ⟨⟩ or ⟨⟩...
  
  
• Voiceless postalveolar fricative
  Voiceless postalveolar fricative
  The voiceless palato-alveolar fricative or voiceless domed postalveolar fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in many spoken languages, including English...
  
  
• Voiceless retroflex affricate
  Voiceless retroflex affricate
  The voiceless retroflex affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound are , sometimes simplified to , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is ts`....
  
  
• Voiceless retroflex fricative
• Voiceless retroflex plosive
  Voiceless retroflex plosive
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• Voiceless uvular affricate
• Voiceless uvular fricative
• Voiceless uvular plosive
• Voiceless velar affricate
• Voiceless velar fricative
  Voiceless velar fricative
  The voiceless velar fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The sound was part of the consonant inventory of Old English and can still be found in some dialects of English, most notably in Scottish English....
  
  
• Voiceless velar lateral affricate
  Voiceless velar lateral affricate
  The voiceless velar lateral affricate is an uncommon speech sound found as a phoneme in the Caucasus and as an allophone in several languages of eastern and southern Africa....
  
  
• Voiceless velar nasal
• Voiceless velar plosive
  Voiceless velar plosive
  The voiceless velar stop or voiceless velar plosive is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is k....
  
  
• Voicing
  Voice (phonetics)
  Voice or voicing is a term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless or voiced. The term, however, is used to refer to two separate concepts. Voicing can refer to the articulatory process in which the vocal cords vibrate...
  
  
• Vowel backness
• Vowel harmony
  Vowel harmony
  Vowel harmony is a type of long-distance assimilatory phonological process involving vowels that occurs in some languages. In languages with vowel harmony, there are constraints on which vowels may be found near each other....
  
  
• Vowel height
• Vowel length
  Vowel length
  In linguistics, vowel length is the perceived duration of a vowel sound. Often the chroneme, or the "longness", acts like a consonant, and may etymologically be one, such as in Australian English. While not distinctive in most dialects of English, vowel length is an important phonemic factor in...
  
  
• Vowel reduction
  Vowel reduction
  In phonetics, vowel reduction is any of various changes in the acoustic quality of vowels, which are related to changes in stress, sonority, duration, loudness, articulation, or position in the word , and which are perceived as "weakening"...
  
  
• Vowel roundedness
• Vowel
  Vowel
  In phonetics, a vowel is a sound in spoken language, such as English ah! or oh! , pronounced with an open vocal tract so that there is no build-up of air pressure at any point above the glottis. This contrasts with consonants, such as English sh! , where there is a constriction or closure at some...