Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each English consonant by manner.
Groups: Affricate · Nasal · Approximant
- The ng of sing
- /l/
- /w/
- The ch of church
- The j of judge
- /m/
Hints
- Two of the classes have exactly two English members each in this list.
- A stop released into a fricative is an affricate.
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Affricate: The ch of church, The j of judge
Nasal: /m/, The ng of sing
Approximant: /w/, /l/
Why
These nine consonants complete the twenty-four. The ng sound is the distributionally strange one, it never begins a word, and /l/ is the one with the most audible allophonic variation, which the rest of the lesson is about.
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