Table 1: Examples of categorization of American English consonant and vowel sounds.
| Consonant sounds | |||||
| Manner of articulation | Position of articulation | ||||
| Bilabial | Labiodental | Lingua-alveolar | Linguopalatal | Linguavelar | |
| Stop-plosives | /p/-pen | - | /t/-top | - | /k/-call |
| Fricatives | - | /f/-fill | /s/-sun | /∫/-she | - |
| Vowel sounds | |||||
| Tongue height | Tongue advancement | ||||
| Front | Back | ||||
| High | /i/-eat | /u/-suit | |||
| Mid | /e/-vacation | /o/-obey | |||
| Low | /ǽ/-at | /a/-father | |||