Choose Your Vocab: File 2 Flashcards
20 vocabulary words from File 2
articulatory phonetics
the study of production of speech sounds
acoustic phonetics
the study of transmission and physical properties of speech sounds
auditory phonetics
the study of perception of speech sounds
Impressionistic Phonetic Transcription
method of writing down speech sounds with intent of capturing how they are pronounced
Co-articualtion
the influence of one sound on a neighboring sound
Segments
discrete units of speech stream that can be divided into further units including consonants and vowels
Suprasegmentals
phonetic characteristic of speech sounds including length, intonation, tone, or stress
Consonant
speech sound produced with a constriction in the vocal tract that impedes airflow
Vowels
speech sound produced with a slight narrowing in vocal tract, allowing air to flow freely through oral cavity
Monothong
a simple vowel, composed of a single configuration of vocal organs
Dipthongs
A complex vowel, composed of a sequence of two different configurations of the vocal organs
Segmental features
the voicing, place, and manner of articulation
Airstream Mechanisms
ways to produce a stream of air through vocal tract for production of speech sounds; pulmonic, glottalic, and velar; may be egressive or ingresive airstream
Parameters of Signed Languages
- Place of articulation
- movement
- hand shape
- hand orientation
- non-manual markers
Alveolar
sounds that are made with the tongue tip at or near the front of the upper alveolar ridge
Fricatives
sounds made by forming a nearly complete obstruction of vocal tract
Affricatives
sounds made by briefly stopping the airstream completely and then releasing the articulators slightly so that frication noise is produced
Glides
Sounds produced with a slight closure of articualtors and some movement of articulators during sound production
Compression
air molecules are more crowded together
Rarefraction
air molecules are spread farther apart from each other
