note: in castillian spanish, "y" is a voiced palatal approxiant and "ll" is a voiced palatal affricate. not many people make this difference though and just do /j/ or /ʎ/ for both. i'm among the few that do though so i wanted to point that out
In the video, says that the distance between the active articulator and the passive articulator does not cause any audible friction sound, which is why it is an approximant consonant. Isn't it the same thing that happens with vowels? So why do we define /ɹ/ as a consonant? What defines the consonants is the blocking of the air - total and momentary blocking - or the constriction of the air, which causes a noise. I see no explanation for /ɹ/ being a consonant.
What's the difference between /ɝ/ and /ɹ/? I want to know why /ɹ/ is defined as a consonant. I was told that it is consonant because it has a point of articulation and manner of articulation, but in vowels we have articulators, such as the tongue and lips. So what's the difference? And what is this difference in the phoneme /ɹ/?
In the video it says that the approximants, although they do not produce friction, do produce air turbulence, whereas the vowels do not. Turbulence is not agitation? So air turbulence is the agitation of air molecules, is that it? How come the air molecules are not agitated when pronouncing the vowels?
note: in castillian spanish, "y" is a voiced palatal approxiant and "ll" is a voiced palatal affricate. not many people make this difference though and just do /j/ or /ʎ/ for both. i'm among the few that do though so i wanted to point that out
very helpful! thank you!
In the video, says that the distance between the active articulator and the passive articulator does not cause any audible friction sound, which is why it is an approximant consonant. Isn't it the same thing that happens with vowels? So why do we define /ɹ/ as a consonant? What defines the consonants is the blocking of the air - total and momentary blocking - or the constriction of the air, which causes a noise. I see no explanation for /ɹ/ being a consonant.
Thank you very much
What's the difference between /ɝ/ and /ɹ/?
I want to know why /ɹ/ is defined as a consonant. I was told that it is consonant because it has a point of articulation and manner of articulation, but in vowels we have articulators, such as the tongue and lips. So what's the difference? And what is this difference in the phoneme /ɹ/?
In the video it says that the approximants, although they do not produce friction, do produce air turbulence, whereas the vowels do not. Turbulence is not agitation? So air turbulence is the agitation of air molecules, is that it? How come the air molecules are not agitated when pronouncing the vowels?
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