Consonant speech sounds formed with a constriction between the tongue tip and the alveolar ridge (a ridge located just behind the upper central incisors). There are two main forms that this sound can take: fricatives (airstream directed through a narrow constriction in the vocal tract resulting in turbulent airflow and a noisy sound), and plosives (airflow from the lungs interrupted by complete closure in the mouth resulting in a build-up of air pressure and an abrupt release of the airstream). Lingua-alveolar fricatives can occur as voiceless as \/s\/ in stop and class, and also as voiced in, for example, \/z\/ in zebra and is. The same applies to lingua-alveolar plosives: \/t\/ as in top and must being voiceless and \/d\/ in dog and troubled being voiced. In English, consonants are acquired in a front-to-back manner, with plosives being used before fricatives (viz., during babbling). Then there also lingua-alveolar liquids: vowel-like sounds produced with an open vocal tract as in \/l\/ and \/r\/. <\/p>\n
See Babbling<\/a>, Bilabial<\/a>, Clicks<\/a>, Consonants<\/a>, Fricative<\/a>, Glottal<\/a>, Labio-dental<\/a>, Lateral sound<\/a>, Liquid<\/a>, Lingua-velar (or velar)<\/a>, Lingua-dental (or dental)<\/a>, Plosive<\/a>, Rhotic sound<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Consonant speech sounds formed with a constriction between the tongue tip and the alveolar ridge (a ridge located just behind the upper central incisors). There are two main forms that this sound can take: fricatives (airstream directed through a narrow constriction in the vocal tract resulting in turbulent airflow and a noisy sound), and plosives … <\/p>\n