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ʘ Glottis Quarterly of Applied Phonetics

Plate IV · Revised Impression, 2026

The Articulatory Chart

Every sound the human vocal tract can make on a pulmonic airstream, filed by where the constriction happens and how it is released — with the vowel space drawn as the trapezoid your tongue actually occupies.

Left of pair — voiceless
Right of pair — voiced
Articulation judged impossible
◯ Ringed vowel — lip rounding
IV·A

Pulmonic consonants

Place → across · Manner → down
Select any symbol to open its articulatory dossier. Arrow keys traverse the grid.
IV·B

Vowel quadrilateral

Tongue height ↕ · Tongue backness ↔
FrontCentralBack

Where symbols appear in pairs, the right-hand glyph carries lip rounding. Positions follow the 2020 revision; the central rule marks the tongue-body midline, not a phonemic boundary.