airstream mechanism

Stops may be made with more than one airstream mechanism.

Of these six possible airstream mechanisms, four are found in words around the world:

In this case, the airstream mechanism is omitted.

The airstream mechanism is how the air moving through the vocal tract is powered.

The essence of a click is a lingual ingressive airstream mechanism.

Ejectives and implosives are made with this airstream mechanism.

Other airstream mechanisms are possible.

This ambiguity does not occur with the next airstream mechanism, lingual, which is clearly distinct from pulmonic sounds.

Eating the Wind a satirical but illustrative example of sound symbolism and iconicity using airstream mechanisms.

Ikwere's stops resemble both, in that they are velarized and have a non-pulmonic airstream mechanism.

Click consonants use the velaric airstream mechanism.

In phonetics, the airstream mechanism is the method by which airflow is created in the vocal tract.

So-called glottalized vowels and other sonorants use the more common pulmonic egressive airstream mechanism.

Airstream mechanism (phonetics)

Since changes in air pressures between connected cavities lead to airflow between the cavities, initiation is also referred to as an airstream mechanism.

Implosive consonants are stops (rarely affricates) with a mixed glottalic ingressive and pulmonic egressive airstream mechanism.

The enclosed pocket of air is rarefied by a sucking action of the tongue (in technical terminology, clicks have a lingual ingressive airstream mechanism).

Like other consonants, clicks can be described using four parameters: place of articulation, manner of articulation, phonation (including glottalization), and airstream mechanism.

They appear to be entirely absent from northern Eurasia and Australia, even from the Australian ceremonial language Damin, which uses every other possible airstream mechanism.

Glottalic sounds may involve motion of the larynx upward or downward, producing an egressive or ingressive glottalic airstream mechanism respectively.

Dahalo has a highly diverse sound system using all four airstream mechanisms found in human language: clicks, ejectives, and implosives, as well as the universal pulmonic sounds.

Some of the ExtIPA diacritics are occasionally used for non-disordered speech, for example for the unusual airstream mechanisms of Damin.

Consonants variously called "voiceless implosives", "implosives with glottal closure", or "reverse ejectives" involve a slightly different airstream mechanism, purely glottalic ingressive.

The larynx is used to initiate the glottalic airstream mechanism by changing the volume of the supraglottal and subglottal cavities via vertical movement of the larynx (with a closed glottis).

All of these manners of articulation are pronounced with an airstream mechanism called pulmonic egressive, meaning that the air flows outward, and is powered by the lungs (actually the ribs and diaphragm).