Table 1: Examples of categorization of American English consonant and vowel sounds.
Consonant sounds | |||||
Manner of articulation | Position of articulation | ||||
Bilabial | Labiodental | Lingua-alveolar | Linguopalatal | Linguavelar | |
Stop-plosives | /p/-pen | - | /t/-top | - | /k/-call |
Fricatives | - | /f/-fill | /s/-sun | /∫/-she | - |
Vowel sounds | |||||
Tongue height | Tongue advancement | ||||
Front | Back | ||||
High | /i/-eat | /u/-suit | |||
Mid | /e/-vacation | /o/-obey | |||
Low | /ǽ/-at | /a/-father |