Chapter 4&5-vowels and consonants

Question 1

How are vowels classified

Answer 1

By tongue position degree of elevation and lip rounding

Question 2

Our vowels produced with oral resonance

Answer 2

Yes - they are ALL voiced

Question 3

Frequency is related to what

Answer 3

Pitch

Question 4

Intensity is related to what

Answer 4

Loudness

Question 5

What is a tense vowel

Answer 5

Longer in duration greater muscular effort and can end a stressed open syllable

Question 6

What is a lax vowel

Answer 6

Shorter in duration never ends a stressed open syllable

Question 7

What is F1

Answer 7

It is inversely related to tongue height

Question 8

What is F2

Answer 8

Directly related to tongue advancement

Question 9

What is a formant

Answer 9

The select set of frequencies that resonate for a given vowel or resonating sound

Question 10

What is source filter theory

Answer 10

Energy from the source is filtered by the residences of the vowel tract the buzz generated from the vocal folds

Question 11

What are your resonant consonants

Answer 11

Your nasals liquids and glides they are all voiced

Question 12

What are your nonresonant consonants or obstruents

Answer 12

Your stops fricatives and affricates they can be voiced or voiceless

Question 13

Our vowels longer or shorter than consonants

Answer 13

Longer

Question 14

Do consonants have a lesser or greater intensity then vowels

Answer 14

Vowels have a greater intensity

Question 15

Can consonants stand alone

Answer 15

No but vowels can

Question 16

Do vowels have a high or low frequency

Answer 16

Low

Question 17

Do resonant consonants have a low or high frequency

Answer 17

Low

Question 18

Do obstruent consonants have a low or high frequency

Answer 18

High

Question 19

How are consonants classified

Answer 19

By Place manner and voice

Question 20

What are cognate pairs

Answer 20

They are made in the same place and manner except for their voicing is different

Question 21

What are the places for consonants to happen at

Answer 21

Labial lingual palatal alveolar dental glottal and velar

Question 22

What are the manners that consonants are produced by

Answer 22

Stops fricative affricate nasal glide liquid

Question 23

Past tense ED

Answer 23

Produced as a /t/ when following a voiceless phoneme

Produced as a /d/when following a voiced phoneme

Question 24

What are characteristics of fricatives

Answer 24

The airstream force through narrow channel

The velopharyngeal port is closed

It creates turbulence or and obstruent

Question 25

What are characteristics of stops

Answer 25

They have a complete obstruction of airstream followed by an explosive airburst

They impound intro oral pressure with the velum closed

Question 26

What are characteristics of nasal consonants

Answer 26

Airstream blocked in the oral cavity

Velum is lowered or open

There is no release of intra oral pressure from the oral cavity

You block airflow out of the mouth but continual through the nose

Residence through the entire vocal tract including the pharynx oral cavity and nasal cavity

Question 27

What are affricates

Answer 27

A combination of a stop and a fricative manner

Question 28

What is a rhotic diphthong

Answer 28

It is a vowel often found in combination with a consonant /r/

Question 29

What are phonemes that are produced with a noise source called

Answer 29

Obstruents

Question 30

What is a Homoorganic phoneme

Answer 30

They happen only in the same place but can very invoiced or voiceless and stops fricatives affricates etc.