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Articulatory phonetics

The field of articulatory phonetics is a subfield of phonetics and gives answers to the question: how do people make speech sounds?

For example, English has 26 consonants, 12 vowels and three diphthongs, even though there are only 26 letters in the English alphabet.

See:

Manner of articulation
Place of articulation
Vowel
Consonant
International phonetic alphabet

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