ITL Tutorial 4 (WS25/26)

Consonants are not classified by...

• Voicing

• Place of Articulation

• Length

• Manner of Articulation

Modern English does not have any...

• ...voiced plosives.

• ...sonorous vowels.

• ...labiovelar glides.

• ...uvular fricatives.

Which of these are existing manners of articulation?

• Affricate

• Glottal

• Obstruent

• Liquid

Diphtongs (in English) can be described as...

• Centring

• Lowering

• Rising

• Falling

Which of these features fit vowels, but not consonants?

• Voiceless

• Sonority

• Syllabic

• Little obstruction in vocal tract

Which one of these is not a suprasegmental property?

• Reduction

• Pitch

• Stress

• Length

Write down a word that contains both a voiceless fricative and a high vowel!

Now write down a word that contains no more than four sounds and at least two vowels!

Find a word that contains an affricate and a glide!

Draw a high vowel!