Chapter 6

Question 1

What are the main characteristics of fricative sounds?

Answer 1

Fricatives are consonants with the characteristic that air escapes through a narrow passage and makes a hissing sound. They are continuant consonants.

Question 2

What are affricates?

Answer 2

Affricates are rather complex consonants. They begin with a plosive and end as fricatives.

Question 3

What does it mean to be homorganic?

Answer 3

It is a consonant sound that is articulated in the same place of articulation as another.

Question 4

What are continuant consonants?

Answer 4

You can continue making them without interruption as long as you have enough air in your lungs.

Question 5

What is pre-fortis clipping?

Answer 5

When a voiceless consonant comes at the end of a syllable, the vowel which is immediately before it, is shorter.

Question 6

/h/ sound

Answer 6

glottal. The narrowing that produces the friction noise is between the vocal folds. It takes the form of the vowel that follows it.

Question 7

Fortis consonants.

Answer 7

Usually articulated with open glottis (vocal folds separated.)
In fricatives, airflow is essential for successful production.
With plosives, an alternate possibility is to produce the consonant with a completely closed glottis. This is called glottalisation.