Chapter 2.0 Flashcards
INTONATION
The pattern of pitch movements across a stretch of speech such as a sentence
SEGMENTS
Discrete units of the speech stream.
SUPRASEGMENTAL
Features that extend across numerous segments in an utterance, rather than belonging to a single phonetic segment: length, intonation, tone, and stress.
GLOTTALIZATION
Ejective sounds that are produced simultaneously with the primary oral closure in the vocal tract.
PALATAL
Nasal sound produced by placing the tongue in the roof of the mouth.
CONTINOUS SPEECH
Speaking in phrases and sentences, with all the words run together…
ARTICULATORY PHONETICS
The study of the production of speech sounds.
ACOUSTIC PHONETICS
The study of the transmission and the physical properties of speech sounds.
AUDITORY PHONETICS
The study of the perception of speech sounds.
SOUND SPECTROGRAPH
Use pictures of sound to explore the physical properties of sound.
CO-ARTICULATION
The influence of one sound on a neighboring sound.
NUCLEUS
The vocalic sound of rhyne
CODA
The rhyme broken down into final consonants.
ARTICULATION
The motion or positioning of some part of the vocal tract.
BILABIAL
When consonants are made by bringing both lips together.
INTERDENTAL
Are made with the tip of the tongue protruding between the front teeth.
VOICING BAR
When a spectrogram can indicate whether vocal fold vibrations are present in a sound.
SPECTROGRAM
To exam the sound of acoustic pictures.
GLOTTAL
Sounds are produced when the air is constricted at the larynx.
AFFRICATIVE
Are complex sounds made by briefly stopping the airstream completely and then releasing the articulators slightly so that frication noise is produced.
