considered an occlusive/stop without the pre-occlusion. A pre-stopped consonant behaves phonologically as a single consonant. That is, like affricates...

and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Prenasalized consonants are phonetic sequences of a nasal and an obstruent (or occasionally a...

prenasalized consonants, pre-stopped nasals and post-stopped nasals, as in Arrernte nasal clicks such as Zulu nq, nx, nc other nasalized consonants, such as...

simultaneously with another consonant. In certain cases, the glottal stop can even wholly replace the voiceless consonant. The term 'glottalized' is also...

alveopalatal) consonants, sometimes synonymous with pre-palatal consonants, are intermediate in articulation between the coronal and dorsal consonants, or which...

⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Consonant gradation is a type of consonant mutation (mostly lenition but also assimilation) found...

A syllabic consonant or vocalic consonant is a consonant that forms the nucleus of a syllable on its own, like the m, n and l in some pronunciations of...

in phonetics, is voicing before the onset of a consonant or beginning with the onset of the consonant but ending before its release. In the extensions...

Assimilation of certain consonants in clusters, especially nasals. Glottalization and pre-glottalization (insertion of a glottal stop in place of or before...

instead of the intended characters. Click consonants, or clicks, are speech sounds that occur as consonants in many languages of Southern Africa and in...

The voiceless uvular plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. It is pronounced like a voiceless velar plosive [k]...

Velar consonants are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth...

voiced velar plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages. Some languages have the voiced pre-velar plosive, which is...

voiceless stop consonants /t/, /p/, and /k/, depending on position in a word. A related change, the devoicing of the voiced stopped consonants /d/, /b/...

§ Brackets and transcription delimiters. An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place...

The voiced uvular plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that...

complex set of phonological features that distinguish fortis and lenis consonants (stops, affricates, and fricatives). Phonological analysis of English often...

A dental consonant is a consonant articulated with the tongue against the upper teeth, such as /θ/, /ð/. In some languages, dentals are distinguished from...

of consonant clusters. The H-cluster reductions are various consonant reductions that have occurred in the history of English, involving consonant clusters...

under the main consonant. Originally there were 35 consonant characters, but modern Khmer uses only 33. Each character represents a consonant sound together...

The voiced uvular fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents...

Pre-glottalization of /t/ is found in RP and General American (GA) when the consonant /t/ occurs before another consonant, or before a pause: pre-consonantal:...

§ Brackets and transcription delimiters. In phonetics, labiodentals are consonants articulated with the lower lip and the upper teeth, such as [f] and [v]...

preaspirated stops have a longer duration of aspiration than normally aspirated (post-aspirated) stops, comparable to clusters of [h]+consonant in languages...

laminal consonant (see Consonants above), excluding the pre-stopped nasals. All words must end with a vowel. In addition to the pre-stopped consonants, consonant...

That is, a denti-alveolar consonant is (pre)alveolar and laminal rather than purely dental. Although denti-alveolar consonants are often labeled as "dental"...

The voiceless uvular nasal is an extremely rare type of consonantal sound, used in very few spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic...

geminates and pre-aspirated stops as CC, the vowel is short. There are, however, some exceptions to this rule: A vowel is long when the first consonant following...

with other sonorants. Pre-stopped nasal consonants (Q2) are indicated by a preceding letter for a voiceless stop. Voiced pre-stopped nasals (Q3) are written...

is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. It is the sound of ng in English sing as well as n before velar consonants as in English...