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Approximants + Secondary Articulations - Bases Produced

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Obstruents and Sonorants<br />

• Phonologically speaking, there are also different kinds of<br />

consonants.<br />

• One important distinction is between obstruents and<br />

sonorants.<br />

• Obstruents<br />

• Stops, fricatives, affricates<br />

• Obstruct flow of air through the vocal tract so much that<br />

voicing is difficult<br />

• Sonorants<br />

• Nasals, approximants (glides, liquids), trills, flaps<br />

• Allow air to flow freely through vocal tract so that<br />

resonance (voicing) is still possible

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