Articulatory Phonetics & English Phonology Bittner 2010

ENGLISH ALLOPHONES
(revised to 2017)

(PULMONIC) CONSONANT CHART

Lip & Tongue Labial Coronal Dorsal Radical
Position
POA Bilabial Labiodental Dental Alveolar Postalveolar Retroflex Palatal Velar Uvular Pharyngeal Glottal
(Epiglottal)
MOA
Stop (Plosive)                    
Obstruents

Affricate                   

+  Sonority Hierarchy  ‒

Fricative                    
Nasal                   
Lateral                 
Liquids
Sonorants

                
Approximants

Rhotic

Tap/Flap                   
    

Glides
                  

Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the left represents a voiceless (fortis) consonant and the one to the right represents a voiced (lenis) consonant.
Shaded areas denote articulations judged impossible. Brackets ( ) indicate the secondary articulation of a co-articulated consonant.