Calling the Phones

Read the description given at the left of your screen.Then say which phoneme is described.

When giving your answer you will be awarded - 1 pt for the SOUND1 pt for the SYMBOL 1 pt for an EXAMPLE

Calling the PhonesCONSONANTS & GLIDESWhich sound is it?I am a plosive.I am velarI am voiceless

What am I?/k/Which sound is it?I am a nasal.I am bilabialI am voiced

What am I?/m/Which sound is it?I am a plosive.I am alveolarI am voiceless

What am I?/t/Which sound is it?I am an approximantI am velar and labialTo pronounce me, you must have rounded lips.

What am I?/w/Which sound is it?I am alveolarI am voiced, but can also be voiceless in certain circumstances.I am a lateral approximant.I am a liquid.

What am I?/l/Which sound is it?I am alveolar.I am a nasalI am voiced

What am I?/n/Which sound is it?I am a fricative.I am glottalI am voiceless

What am I?/h/Which sound is it?I am an affricate.I am voiceless

What am I?//Which sound is it?I am plosive.I am bilabialI am voiced

What am I?/b/Which sound is it?I am a voiced.I am alveolarI am a trillI am a liquid

What am I?/r/Which sound is it?I am an affricate.I am voiced

What am I?//Which sound is it?I am a plosive.I am alveolarI am voiced

What am I?/d/Which sound is it?I am a fricative.I am alveolarI am voiceless

What am I?/s/Which sound is it?I am a fricative.I am interdental or dentalI am voiced

What am I?/D/

Which sound is it?I am a fricative.I am labiodetalI am voiceless

What am I?/f/Which sound is it?I am a fricative.I am post-alveolarI am voiced

What am I?//Which sound is it?I am a fricative.I am post-alveolarI am voiceless

What am I?//Which sound is it?I am a palatal.I am an appoximantI am voiced

What am I?/j/Which sound is it?I am a fricative.I am alveolarI am voiced

What am I?/z/Which sound is it?I am a fricative.I am labio-dentalI am voiced

What am I?/v/Which sound is it?I am a plosive.I am bilabialI am voiced

What am I?/b/Which sound is it?I am a fricative.I am dental or inter-dentalI am voiceless

What am I?/B/

Which sound is it?I am a plosive.I am velarI am voiceless

What am I?/C/

Which sound is it?I am a alveolar.I am tap or flapI am voicedI am a liquid

What am I?//Which sound is it?I am a plosive.I am glottalI am voiceless

What am I?//Which sound is it?I am a approximant.I am alveolarI am voicedI am a liquid

What am I?//Which sound is it?I am a French sound.I am trill.I am uvularI am voiced

What am I?/R/

Which sound is it?I am a French sound.I am a plosive.I am palatalI am voiceless

What am I?//VOWELSWhich vowel is it?I am close.I am front.I am tense.I am unrounded.I am found in the word heat.

What am I?/i/Which sound is it?I am close.I am back.I am tense.I am rounded.I am found in the word shoot.

What am I?/u/Which sound is it?I am open.I am front.I am unrounded.In English, I am found in diphthongs.I am found in the word bite and down.

What am I?/a/Which sound is it?I am close-mid.I am front.I am unrounded.In English, I am found in diphthongs.I am found in the word bait and hey.

What am I?/e/Which sound is it?I am close-mid.I am back.I am rounded.In English, I am found in diphthongs.I am found in the word boat and toy.

What am I?/o/Which sound is it?I am open.I am back.I am tense.I am unrounded.I am found in the word hot.

What am I?//Which sound is it?I am open-mid.I am back.I am rounded.In English, I am found in diphthongs.I am found in the word boy.

What am I?//Which sound is it?I am mid.I am central.I am lax.I am reduced and brief.I am found in the word alone.They call me schwa

What am I?//Which sound is it?I am open-mid.I am front.I am lax.I am unrounded.I am found in the word bet and sad.

What am I?//?Which sound is it?I am open.I am front.I am lax.I am unrounded.I am found in the word that and and.

What am I?//?Which sound is it?I am close.I am front.I am lax.I am unrounded.I am found in the word hit and sin.

What am I?//Which sound is it?I am Close.I am back.I am lax.I am rounded.I am found in the word look.

What am I?//Which sound is it?I am open-mid.I am back.I am lax.I am unrounded.I am found in the word hut and mud.

What am I?/y/

Which sound is it?I am open-mid.I am central.I am unrounded.I have an added extension to mark the adding of the sound /r/.I can be found in words like bird.

What am I?//Which sound is it?I am Closed.I am front.I am tense.I am rounded.I am hard to pronounce for Anglophones, since I am found in the French words rue and lune.

What am I?/y/