30-Day Accent Challenge, Day 10

In today's class, we talked about the manner of articulation, which is what we are doing with the shapes of our articulators (tongue, lips) to the airflow to create sound.

Stops:  we stop the air, building up pressure,then release
Fricatives:  we close off the air enough to make a noisy friction sound
Affricates:  we stop, then release with a fricative
Nasals:  we close off all the air so it can't release from the mouth, instead it goes through the nose
Liquids:  we close off the air without enough to make a friction sound
Glides:  we move from one articulation to another quickly, almost like 2 vowels together
Flap:  we stop the air briefly but without building up any pressure

Try some words:
Stops:  top, dog
Fricatives: fifth, she’s, vision
Affricates:  judge, each, edge, chop
Liquids: really, rare,
Glides, why, you