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You may call them two "manners of articulation", but they aren't the manners of articulation as a technical term in phonetics. …

I assume by "no oral release" you mean no release of the oral occlusion during voicing (or perhaps a release with no compression of the air trapped behind the occlusion). In that case, you can just us …

It was originally thought of as articulatorily based, but now it serves as auditory yardsticks. Early in the 20th century, Daniel Jones developed the cardinal vowel theory thinking that the tongue mad …

When we say "the alveolar this" or "the velar that", we're seldom talking about a sound with absolutely only one possible articulation but a whole class of similar sounds whose differences are not con …

Glides (or "semivowels") are sounds that are not phonetically dissimilar from vowels but behave like consonants—that is, they cannot constitute the nucleus (peak) of a syllable. From a purely articul …

Whether there is a meaningful difference between a devoiced approximant and a voiceless fricative is an unsettled question in phonetics. …

English [ɹ] has two realizations: apical and bunched (aka molar). ExtIPA (extensions to the IPA) thus recommends the use of [ɹ̺] and [ɹ̈] to differentiate the two. But I also often see English /r/ tra …

Short answer: [ɹ̺] and [ɻ] are on a continuum and there is little difference between them. Long answer: According to Laver (1994), [ɻ] is "used as a pronunciation of /r/ in a number of American acc …

By those three descriptions Catford (2001) doesn't introduce three articulations but three designations. He only describes one way of articulating [ɕ]. It is how to describe it using existing terminol …

It depends on what you mean by "phonemes". Received Pronunciation is pretty much the only English accent for which transcription conventions have been established and widely accepted (but even then t …

Syllabicity is a phonological concept, not phonetic. A vowel is a sound that is phonetically a vocoid and phonologically syllabic. A consonant is a sound that is phonetically a contoid and phonologica …

No. In the vast majority of contexts, glide and semivowel are synonymous. See e.g. Ladefoged & Johnson (2015: 191), Rogers (2000: 184), Ball & Rahilly (1999: 51). Definitions of glide that somewhat di …

Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary and Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, which are considered authoritative reference works on the topic, each come with a CD-ROM containing an application with a …

There's no way to definitively answer this on phonetic grounds alone. The Handbook of the IPA addresses the question on pp. 33–34. It says, "There may be some evidence in the phonetic signal to help r …

Affricated realization of /t/ is characteristic of (certain varieties of) London speech (Cockney). Wells (1982: 31) writes: A common allophone of /t/ in a London accent is a heavily affricated [ts], …