Definition : The term homorganic is used to describe speech sounds which have the same place of articulation - that is, they are made in the same place in the mouth. For example, /n/ and /t/ are homorganic - they are both alveolar consonants - ie made by placing the the tongue on the alveolar ridge.
Other Examples :
- Affricates are consonants which are formed by the combination of a homorganic plosive and fricative.
- Assimilation of place makes words easier to pronounce by changing a phoneme to one which is homorganic with the one adjacent to it. Eg white bag will be pronounced /waɪp bæg/ - the alveolar /t/ changes to bilabial /p/ which is homorganic with the following /b/ (also bilabial).
