Palato-alveolar.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 484.

Interdentalconsonants or interdentals are made with the tip of the tongue projected between the teeth;

Dentalconsonants or dentalsare produced with the blade of the tongue against the upper teeth;

Alveolarconsonants or alveolarsare articulated with the tip of the tongue against the upper teeth ridge;

Post-alveolarconsonants or post alveolarsare made when the tip or the blade of the tongue is against the back part of the teeth ridge or just behind it;

Palato-alveolarconsonants or palato-alveolarsare made with the tip or the blade of the tongue against the teeth ridge and the front part of the tongue raised towards the hard palate, thus having two places of articulation.

Mediolingualconsonants are produced with the front part of the tongue. They are always palatal.Palatal consonants or palatals are made with the front part of the tongue raised high to the hard palate;

Backlingualconsonants are also called velar, because they are produced with the back part of the tongue raised towards the soft palate (Lat. velum)

3. The glottalconsonant [h] is articulated in the glottis.

4.According to the position of the soft palate: oral, nasal.

When the soft palate is raised and the air gets into pharynx (from the lungs) and then into the mouth cavity, the oralconsonants are produced. When the soft palate is lowered and the air on its way passes through the nasal cavity, the nasalconsonants are produced.