English and Russian Consonants 1
English and Russian Consonants 1
According to the degree of noise
| Noise consonants
| Sonorants
| According to the manner of articulation
| Occlusive plosives
| Constrictive
| Occlusive constrictive
| Occlusive
| Constrictive
| Rolled
| According to the work of the vocal cords
| Voiced
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| According to the force of articulation
| weak (lenis)
| strong (fortis)
| weak (lenis)
| strong (fortis)
| weak (lenis)
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| According to the place of articulation
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| forelingual
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| According to the position of the soft palate
| Oral
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English and Russian Consonants 2
The number of foci
| Unicentral
| Bicentral
| Occlusive consonants
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| The shape of the narrowing
| Flat
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English Vowels 1
The part of the tongue raised
| Front
| Front-retracted
| Central
| Back-advanced
| Back
| The height of the tongue
| High (Close)
| Narrow variant
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| Mid (Half-close)
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| Narrow variant
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English Vowels 2
Monophthongs
| historically short and lax
| historically long and tense
| free
| checked when stressed
| free
| unrounded
| rounded
| unrounded
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| Diphthongoids
| historically long and tense
| free
| unrounded
| rounded
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| Diphthongs
| historically long and tense
| free
| /ɪ /-glide
| /ə /-glide
| /ʊ /-glide
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