The Sound System of English

graphic of the Sound System of English

Articulators and Places of Articulation

Articulators

  1. tip of tongue
  2. blade of tongue
  3. back of tongue

Places of Articulation

  1. teeth
  2. tooth (alveolar) ridge
  3. hard palate
  4. soft palage (velum)
  5. glottis
  6. uvula

Peter Avery and Susan Ehrlich, Teaching American English Pronunciation . (Oxford, England: Oxford University
Press, 1994), p. 12. Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press.