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Consonant sound
From Teflpedia
A consonant sound is a speech sound caused by a constriction or closure at some point along the vocal tract.
Contrast vowel sound.
Every syllable is understood to also contain a vowel sound but does not have to include a consonant.
Sounds may be represented either as phones or phonemes, due to the phone–phoneme distinction. Consequently, there are both consonant phones and consonant phonemes.
Consonant sounds can be classified in various was:
- By phonation into voiced consonants and unvoiced consonants.
- By manner of articulation into affricates, fricatives, plosives and semi-vowels.
- By place of articulation.
- By being oral consonants or nasal consonants.