Places of articulation

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The active[1] articulator in all these places of articulation is some part of the tongue, except for bilabials and labiodentals (whose active articulator is the lower lip) and glottals (which have just one articulator, the glottis).

See also:

• Diagram: The principal organs of articulation
• Diagram: Phonetic symbols for consonants
• Diagram: Phonetic symbols for vowels
• Materiales para la enseñanza de la fonética general (website of SIL International, in Spanish)
• Online Phonetics Course (website of the Linguistics Department, University of Lausanne)

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