What is the place of articulation?

As we have seen, the location of the active and passive articulators determines the place of articulation for a consonant. In English, consonants are produced at eight places of articulation. Since we have now covered all the other articulatory parameters required to describe consonants, introducing and defining these places will allow us to build up a complete consonant phoneme system for English. In the tables below, the phoneme or allophone in question is initial in the example word, unless another part of that word is bold-face.