Consonants of English

This video covers the consonants of English. You will learn what the consonants sound like, how they are written, and how to describe them by manner, place, and voicing.

Link to Vowel Video

Consonants + Written Description
/p/ voiceless, bilabial stop
/b/ voiced, bilabial stop
/t/ voiceless, alveolar stop
/d/ voiced, alveolar stop
/k/ voiceless, velar stop
/g/ voiced, velar stop

/m/ voiced, bilabial, nasal
/n/ voiced, alveolar, nasal
/ŋ/ voiced, velar, nasal

/f/ voiceless, labiodental, fricative
/v/ voiced, labiodental, fricative
/θ/ voiceless, interdental, fricative
/ð/ voiced, interdental, fricative
/s/ voiceless, alveolar, fricative
/z/ voiced, alveolar, fricative
/ʃ/ voiceless, palatal, fricative
/ʒ/ voiced, palatal, fricative
/h/ voiceless, glottal, fricative

/tʃ/ voiceless, palatal, affricate
/dʒ/ voiced, palatal, affricate

/j/ voiced, palatal, glide
/w/ voiced, bilabial/labiovelar, glide

/l/ voiced alveolar liquid
/r/ voiced palatal liquid

Resource:
Small, L. H. (2012). Fundamentals of phonetics: A practical guide for students. Boston: Pearson.

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[grahamh.]

3:46 This isn’t correct. [ʒ] and [ʃ] are of course postalveolar sounds, not palatal ones. The tongue doesn’t slide back after the plosive release. I suppose there might be a realization of the postalveolar affricates as alveolo-palatal [t̠ɕ] and [d̠ʑ] in some accent, but that’s certainly not standard for most Americans. Affrication of coronal plosives preceding /ɹ/ and especially /j/ is sometimes called palatalization, but English affricates are not really palatal (unless you want to argue that /ki/ is sometimes realized a bit like [cçi]).

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[jiimms]

I couldn't catch how you pronounced L at 1:38