1. Voice
2. Place
3. Manner
1.
VOICE
The state of vocal folds ( Vibrate or not? )
2.
PLACE
ARTICULATION
In articulatory phonetics, the place of articulation (also point
of articulation) of a consonant is the point of contact where an obstruction
occurs in the vocal tract between an articulatory gesture, an active
articulator (typically some part of the tongue), and a passive location
(typically some part of the roof of the mouth). Along with the manner of
articulation and the phonation, this gives the consonant its distinctive
sound.
The human voice produces sounds in the following
manner:
- Air pressure from the lungs creates a steady flow of air through the trachea (windpipe), larynx (voice box) and pharynx (back of the throat).
- The vocal folds in the larynx vibrate, creating fluctuations in air pressure that are known as sound waves.
- Resonances in the vocal tract modify these waves according to the position and shape of the lips, jaw, tongue, soft palate, and other speech organs, creating formant regions and thus different qualities of sonorant (voiced) sound.
- Mouth and nose openings radiate the sound waves into the environment.
3.
MANNER
How
the sound is produced, the direction of the air is flowing and the circum
stances affecting the tounge.
If you want to practice
pronunciation using audio, these audio pronunciation files are in MP3 format
and you can directly access them without even using Google Search. Just use the
following URL and replace WORD with any of the English words that you are still
learning to pronounce.
https://ssl.gstatic.com/dictionary/static/sounds/de/0/WORD.mp3
To give you an example, here are
some sample audio pronunciation files that you can right-click and directly
download to your computer.
