Alveolar ridge is behind teeth.

Consonants are similar in British and American pronunciation.

A vowel is a speech sound pronounced with some stricture in the vocal tract.

In American (GA) we use back rounded open sound /ɒ/ for words like SHOP /ʃɒp/.

The aperture is an opening between the lips.

Coronal consonants are articulated with the flexible front of the tongue.

The minimal linguistic unit of phonetics is the phoneme.

There are two terms commonly applied to refer to two degrees of vowel height.

Phonetics deals with perception of human speech.

The American tendency is to use high falling intonation.