articulated with none of the voice issuing through the nose, as b, v
articulated with the back of the tongue held close to or touching the soft palate
change into a vowel
a speech sound produced without occluding, diverting, or obstructing the flow of air from the lungs
a voiced sound that is less sonorous than a vowel but more sonorous than a stop or fricative and that may occur as either a sonant or a consonant, as (l, r, m, n, y, w)
a frictionless speech sound with only a partial obstruction of the breath stream whose utterance can be prolonged, especially l and r