A continuant is a sound produced with an incomplete closure of the vocal tract. Sound' is Vibration transmitted through a Solid, Liquid, or Gas; particularly sound means those vibrations composed of Frequencies The vocal tract is that cavity in animals and humans where sound that is produced at the sound source ( Larynx in mammals syrinx in birds is filtered That is, any sound except a stop (plosive or nasal). A stop, plosive, or occlusive is a Consonant sound produced by stopping the airflow in the Vocal tract. An affricate is considered to be a complex segment, composed of both a stop and a continuant. Affricate Consonants begin as stops (most often an alveolar, such as or) but release as a fricative (such as or or occasionally into

Source

• http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAContinuant.htm

See also

• list of phonetics topics
• sonorant
• obstruent
• schwa

A Acoustic phonetics Active articulator Affricate Airstream mechanism In Phonetics and Phonology, a sonorant is a Speech sound that is produced without turbulent airflow in the Vocal tract. In Phonetics, articulation may be divided into two large classes obstruents and Sonorants An obstruent is a Consonant sound formed by In Linguistics, specifically Phonetics and Phonology, schwa can mean the following An unstressed and toneless neutral

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