Places and Manners of Articulation

Where in our mouth do we pronounce our sounds? In what ways do we let the air escape? This week, we talk about places and manners or articulation: all the different places in the vocal tract we can make sounds, the different methods for restricting air flow that we use, and some of the variation we see between languages for making consonants.

This is Topic #20!

This week's tag language: Hungarian!

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[Poppop-xljl]

This video was desperately needed on YouTube. I was shocked when I was first learning the IPA and I couldn't find a single video that just explained it all, most of them just have english sounds. Also I wished language books gave IPA. I hate reading descriptions like 'this is like the t in tooth.'

I hope you someday make a video about sing language. Is there something like the IPA for sign languages?

[AmoRBoy]

I don't know what I like more. The fact that you made it so "sooo" easy, or your shirt. Either way, you deserve a like. Thank you so much!

[shineagmikun]

MAD respect to you for not only being able to pronounce all sorts of sounds, but also teaching us about it in a format that ages like fine wine. Love you man 💕

[jadeswitch]

as a Moroccan hearing the /q/ from a western person sound makes me happy

[WallysaurRex]

I use this video a lot with the phonetics class I teach in high school, everything is so well explained. Props to you.

[RaviAnandVeludandiTM]

tomorrow i have an exam and this is helping me alot...thank you. God bless...

[chantesandiford]

I’m currently studying for a final exam in Icelandic phonetics and this was so helpful! Thank you!!!

[djguydan]

Oh man, I had a flash back to speech therapy in elementary watching this video. Great video!!

[killerbreak]

Thank you so much!! It really helped me with my exam! I didn't understand anything in class and you made it all clear for me!!! Thank you again!!!

[boowitchcraft]

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[rageinsidethemachine]

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[sheawhitetoney]

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[michimichi]

You made these concepts so easy and simple to understand. You have the VPM explained so well and exciting. A million thumbs up!!!!

[MarcelloSevero]

When the letter _y_ is considered to be a vowel in English, it actually very rarely appears as the sound [i] (the vowel equivalent of [j]). Instead, it is usually the vowel [ɪ] (as in _myth_) or the diphthong [aɪ] (as in _cry_). So really, the reason _y_ is sometimes a vowel is not because is it usually pronounced like an approximant, but rather because it represents many different sounds in English spelling.

[Aztecsanddehydration]

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[juliadobo]

Aww glad i stayed ‘til the very end to hear that “sziasztok”!😍 thank you this helped a lot!!🙏🏻

[Mssmn]

Thank you so much for this video. I'm an ESL student and I couldn't get through the IPA chart. You've been incredibly helpful explaining it so clearly.

[thelingspace]

+akhim alexis Intervocalic means something that's in between vowels. Hope this helps! ^_^

[gouthamjagga]

just watched this video before exam and it helping me alot...thank you.

[rosemaeamistad]

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