Phonetics

a sound used in speech that is like the ‘ch' sound in ‘church' or the ‘dg' sound in ‘judge'

a consonant sound such as ‘l', ‘d', ‘n', or ‘t', made with the tongue touching the skin behind your top front teeth

the sound produced when you pronounce something by breathing air out through your mouth

a bilabial sound is one that you produce using both lips, for example the sound of ‘m' or ‘p'

a vowel sound made with your tongue near the top of your mouth

a combination of two vowel sounds said one after the other, as in the words ‘find' and ‘fail'

a speech sound that is made by pushing air out through a small space between your teeth and your tongue or lips, or between your tongue and palate (=the inside upper part of your mouth). ‘F', ‘z', and ‘th' are fricatives

a front vowel is made in the front part of your tongue

a glottal sound is one that you make in speaking when you partly or completely stop air as it passes through the throat

the study of the sounds used in speech

the study of the pattern of speech sounds used in a particular language

a sound pronounced with the end of your tongue bent backwards