To produce speech, the speaker expels air from the lungs through the vocal tract, and modulates the airflow by changing the vocal tract’s shape and moving the tongue against the lips, teeth, alveolar ridge (behind the upper teeth) and palate,...

n. In the conventional phonetic system for classifying consonants (sense 1), the parameter which treats differences in the activity of the vocal organs. The IPA recognizes the following manners: plosive, affricate, fricative, nasal, trill, tap, flap,...

The way in which the airstream is modified during the articulation of a consonant: either (oral or nasal) stop, fricative (both median and lateral), affricate, approximant (both median and lateral), flap, or trill. ( also articulatory...

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In linguistics (articulatory phonetics), manner of articulation describes how the tongue, lips, and other speech organs are involved in making a sound make contact. Often the concept is only used for the production of consonants. For any place of...