Lateral consonants, particularly the lateral approximant /l/, are a fascinating area of study within phonetics and phonology. These sounds are produced with airflow around the sides of the tongue ...

To round out our phonetic journey, here are a few consonant sounds you won’t have to second-guess. One sound you can be certain of is ‘Z’ (as long as it isn’t combined into a digraph or trigraph).

In French, there are vowels and consonants as there are in English. To pronounce words confidently in French, you need to know which sounds they make. Most consonants make a similar sound to ...

Dr. Scarborough works in the areas of phonetics and laboratory phonology ... nasal coarticulation (the nasality that occurs naturally on vowels adjacent to nasal consonants like ‘n’ or ‘m’). This ...

See figure two. The pronunciation of these vowels is consistent, unlike in English where the same vowel may be long or short according to the letters which follow it. Consonants There are 28 consonant ...