Speech Organs Movement during Articulation

Abstract

This is an open educational resource that presents the classification of articulator movements during the articulation of speech sounds. There are 46 consonants presented in this resource and are organised according to their classification from labial to glottal sounds. The description of the speech sounds is in terms of airstream mechanisms, articulators, state of the glottis (voicing), state of the velum (oral or nasal), manner of articulation and place of articulation. The resource provides video illustrations (X-ray view) of the articulators producing sounds available for English and/or Sepedi. The features describing the phonemes are presented in both English and Sepedi.