List of phonetics topics - Definition and Overview

A

• acoustic phonetics
• affricate
• airstream mechanism
• allophone
• alveolar approximant
• alveolar consonant
• alveolar ejective fricative
• alveolar ejective
• alveolar flap
• alveolar nasal
• alveolar ridge
• alveolar trill
• alveolo-palatal consonant
• apical consonant
• approximant consonant
• articulatory phonetics
• aspiration
• auditory phonetics

B

• back vowel
• bilabial click
• bilabial consonant
• bilabial ejective
• bilabial nasal
• bilabial trill
• breathy voice

C

• cardinal vowel
• central consonant
• central vowel
• click consonant
• close back rounded vowel (u)
• close back unrounded vowel (ɯ)
• close central rounded vowel (ʉ)
• close central unrounded vowel (ɨ)
• close front rounded vowel (y)
• close front unrounded vowel (i)
• close vowel
• close-mid back rounded vowel (o)
• close-mid back unrounded vowel (ɤ)
• close-mid central rounded vowel (ɵ)
• close-mid central unrounded vowel (ɘ)
• close-mid front rounded vowel (ø)
• close-mid front unrounded vowel (e)
• close-mid vowel
• consonant
• creaky voice

D

• Daniel Jones
• dental click
• dental consonant
• dental ejective
• dental nasal
• diphthong

E

• eclipsis
• ejective consonant
• elision
• epenthesis
• epiglottal consonant
• epiglottal plosive

F

• formant
• fortis (phonetics)
• fortis and lenis
• fricative consonant
• front vowel

G

• glottis
• glottal consonant
• glottalic consonant (ingressive, egressive)
• glottal stop

H

• hard palate

I

• Ian Maddieson
• implosive consonant
• International Phonetic Alphabet
• International Phonetic Association
• intonation

K

• Kirshenbaum

L

• labialization
• labial-palatal approximant
• labial-palatal consonant
• labial-velar approximant
• labial-velar consonant
• labiodental approximant
• labiodental consonant
• labiodental nasal
• laminal consonant
• lateral alveolar approximant
• lateral alveolar click
• lateral alveolar flap
• lateral consonant
• lateral palatal approximant
• lateral retroflex approximant
• lateral velar approximant
• length (phonetics)
• lenis
• linguolabial consonant
• lips
• list of consonants
• list of vowels

M

• manner of articulation
• metathesis
• mid central vowel (ə)
• mid vowel
• monophthong

N

• nasal consonant
• nasal vowel
• nasalization
• near-back vowel
• near-close near-back rounded vowel (ʊ)
• near-close near-front rounded vowel (ʏ)
• near-close near-front unrounded vowel (ɪ)
• near-close vowel
• near-front vowel
• near-open central vowel (ɐ)
• near-open front unrounded vowel (æ)
• near-open vowel

O

• open back rounded vowel (ɒ)
• open back unrounded vowel (ɑ)
• open front rounded vowel (ɶ)
• open front unrounded vowel (a)
• open vowel
• open-mid back rounded vowel (ɔ)
• open-mid back unrounded vowel (ʌ)
• open-mid central rounded vowel (ɞ)
• open-mid central unrounded vowel (ɜ)
• open-mid front rounded vowel (œ)
• open-mid front unrounded vowel (ɛ)
• open-mid vowel
• oral consonant

P

• palatal approximant
• palatal click
• palatal consonant
• palatal ejective
• palatal nasal
• palatalisation
• Panini
• Peter Ladefoged
• pharyngeal consonant
• pharyngealisation
• phonation
• phone
• phoneme
• phonetic transcription
• phonetics
• place of articulation
• plosive consonant
• postalveolar click
• postalveolar consonant
• prosody
• pulmonic egressive

R

• retroflex approximant
• retroflex consonant
• retroflex flap
• retroflex nasal
• rhotic
• rounded vowel

S

• sandhi
• SAMPA
• sibilant consonant
• slack voice
• sonogram
• sonorant
• speech organ
• syllable
• syncope

T

• table of consonants
• table of vowels
• tap or flap consonant
• teeth
• tonal language
• tone sandhi
• tongue
• trill consonant
• triphthong

U

• unrounded vowel
• uvula
• uvular consonant
• uvular ejective
• uvular nasal
• uvular trill

V

• velar approximant
• velar consonant
• velar ejective
• velar nasal
• velaric egressive
• velarization
• velum
• vocal cords
• vocal stress
• vocal tract
• voiced alveolar fricative
• voiced alveolar implosive
• voiced alveolar lateral fricative
• voiced alveolar plosive
• voiced alveolo-palatal fricative
• voiced bilabial fricative
• voiced bilabial implosive
• voiced bilabial plosive
• voiced consonant
• voiced dental fricative
• voiced dental implosive
• voiced dental plosive
• voiced epiglottal fricative
• voiced glottal fricative
• voiced implosive consonant
• voiced labiodental fricative
• voiced palatal fricative
• voiced palatal implosive
• voiced palatal plosive
• voiced pharyngeal fricative
• voiced postalveolar fricative
• voiced retroflex fricative
• voiced retroflex plosive
• voiced uvular fricative
• voiced uvular implosive
• voiced uvular plosive
• voiced velar fricative
• voiced velar implosive
• voiced velar plosive
• voiceless alveolar fricative
• voiceless alveolar lateral fricative
• voiceless alveolar plosive
• voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative
• voiceless bilabial fricative
• voiceless bilabial plosive
• voiceless consonant
• voiceless dental fricative
• voiceless dental plosive
• voiceless epiglottal fricative
• voiceless glottal fricative
• voiceless glottal plosive
• voiceless labial-velar fricative
• voiceless labiodental fricative
• voiceless palatal fricative
• voiceless palatal plosive
• voiceless pharyngeal fricative
• voiceless postalveolar fricative
• voiceless retroflex fricative
• voiceless retroflex plosive
• voiceless uvular fricative
• voiceless uvular plosive
• voiceless velar fricative
• voiceless velar plosive
• voicing
• vowel backness
• vowel height
• vowel length
• vowel roundedness
• vowel

X

• X-SAMPA