Affricates

Nasals

Liquids

Glides

Fricatives

Stops

Approximants

Sonorants

Obstruents

Consonant and Vowel Features (for Broad SAE)

Ling201,
Jan.
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Consonants

[

p

] : voiceless bilabial stop

[

b

] : voiced bilabial stop

[

t

] : voiceless alveolar stop

[

d

] : voiced alveolar stop

[

k

] : voiceless velar stop

[

ɡ

] : voiced velar stop

[

f

] : voiceless labiodental fricative

[

v

] : voiced labiodental fricative

[

θ

] : voiceless dental fricative

[

ð

] : voiced dental fricative

[

s

] : voiceless alveolar fricative

[

z

] : voiced alveolar fricative

[

ʃ

] : voiceless palato-alveolar fricative

[

ʒ

] : voiced palato-alveolar fricative

[

h

] : voiceless glottal fricative

[

t

ʃ

] : voiceless palato-alveolar affricate

[

d

ʒ

] : voiced palato-alveolar affricate

[

m

] : (voiced) bilabial nasal

[

n

] : (voiced) alveolar nasal

[

ŋ

] : (voiced) velar nasal

[

ɹ

] : (voiced) alveolar approximant

[

l

] : (voiced) alveolar lateral approximant

[

j

] : (voiced) palatal approximant

[

w

] : (voiced) labialized velar approximant

Vowels

[

i

] : high front unrounded tense

[

u

] : high back rounded tense

[

ɪ

] : high front unrounded lax

[

ʊ

] : high back rounded lax

[

e

] : mid front unrounded tense

[

ə

] : mid central unrounded lax

[

o

] : mid back rounded tense

[

ɛ

] : mid front unrounded lax

[

ʌ

] : mid central unrounded lax

[

ɔ

] : mid back rounded lax

[

a

] : low front unrounded tense

[

ɑ

] : low back unrounded tense

[

æ

] : low front unrounded lax