What’s on the How Consonants Are Made poster
A 7-row table: Property · Asks · Examples.
Three properties fully specify a consonant.
- Place — Where in the mouth — Lips: p, b, m
- — — Teeth: th
- — — Ridge: t, d, s
- Manner — How the air moves — Stop: p, t, k
- — — Fricative: f, s, sh
- — — Nasal: m, n
- Voicing — Do the cords vibrate — p vs b, s vs z
p and b differ only in voicing. Everything else about how they are made is identical.
Questions about the How Consonants Are Made poster
- What’s on the How Consonants Are Made poster?
- A 7-row table: Property · Asks · Examples. Three properties fully specify a consonant. Place — Where in the mouth — Lips: p, b, m; — — Teeth: th; — — Ridge: t, d, s; Manner — How the air moves — Stop: p, t, k; — — Fricative: f, s, sh; — — Nasal: m, n; Voicing — Do the cords vibrate — p vs b, s vs z. p and b differ only in voicing. Everything else about how they are made is identical.
- Who is the How Consonants Are Made poster for?
- How Consonants Are Made belongs to the Languages section rather than to a school year, because languages is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning how languages work can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the How Consonants Are Made poster?
- Put a hand on your throat. Voiced consonants buzz; unvoiced ones do not. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so How Consonants Are Made belongs on the wall where that languages work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with How Consonants Are Made?
- Bilingualism, Grammatical Case and Code-Switching sit alongside How Consonants Are Made in the Languages section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.BilingualismGrammatical CaseCode-Switching
- Is the How Consonants Are Made poster free to download and print?
- Yes. How Consonants Are Made downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Languages section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the How Consonants Are Made poster print at?
- How Consonants Are Made is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of How Consonants Are Made loses nothing.Printing guide
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