Check yourself. 1. What is a consonant sound?

Questions and tasks:

1. What is a consonant sound?

2. How do the consonants change on the articulatory level?

3. What are the two consonant classes according to the degree
of noise?

4.What is the function of the vocal cords in the production of voiced and voiceless noise consonants?

5. How does the degree of noise vary because of the force of
articulation?

6. What is a sonorant? State the difference between sonorants
and noise consonants.

7. How does the position of the soft palate determine the quality of a sonorant?

8. Define every type of obstruction.

9. What are the groups of consonants according to the
manner of articulation?

10. What consonant sounds are called 'occlusive'?

11. Why are plosives called 'stops'?

12.What consonant sounds are called 'constrictive'? What is the difference between occlusives and constrictives?

13. How else are constrictive noise consonants called and why?

14. How do the fricatives vary in the work of the vocal cords and in the degree of articulation force?

15. How are the constrictive sonorants made?

16. What consonant sounds are occlusive-constrictive?

17. Draw a table of the English consonants classification according to the place of articulation.

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