Chapter 5 Flashcards
sound perception
the ability to distinguish sounds
International phonetic alphabet
EACH SYMBOL REPRESENTS ONE SOUND
phonology
the study of the sound system of a language
phoneme
a class of speech sounds and the smallest unit of sound that can affect meaning.
allophone
varied productions of an individual phoneme.
vowels
involve vocal fold vibrations
open oral tract
what shapes the vocal tract?
tongue
jaw movement
lips
diphthong
A combination of vowels that come together to make one sound.
consonants
produced by restricting the oral cavity
syllable
combination of a vowel and a consonant
how are consonants classified?
manner, place, and voicing
Manner of articulation
the degree or type of constriction
Place of articulation
describes the location of constriction
voicing
presence or absence of vocal fold vibrations in the production of consonants
manners of articulation
stops, fricatives, affricates, glides, liquids, nasals
stop-plosives
produced by completely stopping the airflow and then releasing it.
what are the 6 stop-plosives
P, B, T,D,K,G
Fricatives
the air is forced through a constricted oral cavity
affricates
a combination of strops and fricatives
example chair, jump
glides
the shapes of the articulators change gradually
W and J
liquids (semivowels)
The oral cavity is restricted the least.R and L
nasals
nasal resonance is added by keeping teh velopharyngeal port open N,M,nj
7 categories of place of articulation
bilabial, labiodental, linguadental, lingua-alveolars, palatals, linguavelar, glottal
bilabial sounds
produced primarily by the two ips