Choose Your Vocab: File 2

Question 1

articulatory phonetics

Answer 1

the study of production of speech sounds

Question 2

acoustic phonetics

Answer 2

the study of transmission and physical properties of speech sounds

Question 3

auditory phonetics

Answer 3

the study of perception of speech sounds

Question 4

Impressionistic Phonetic Transcription

Answer 4

method of writing down speech sounds with intent of capturing how they are pronounced

Question 5

Co-articualtion

Answer 5

the influence of one sound on a neighboring sound

Question 6

Segments

Answer 6

discrete units of speech stream that can be divided into further units including consonants and vowels

Question 7

Suprasegmentals

Answer 7

phonetic characteristic of speech sounds including length, intonation, tone, or stress

Question 8

Consonant

Answer 8

speech sound produced with a constriction in the vocal tract that impedes airflow

Question 9

Vowels

Answer 9

speech sound produced with a slight narrowing in vocal tract, allowing air to flow freely through oral cavity

Question 10

Monothong

Answer 10

a simple vowel, composed of a single configuration of vocal organs

Question 11

Dipthongs

Answer 11

A complex vowel, composed of a sequence of two different configurations of the vocal organs

Question 12

Segmental features

Answer 12

the voicing, place, and manner of articulation

Question 13

Airstream Mechanisms

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Parameters of Signed Languages

Answer 14

1. Place of articulation
2. movement
3. hand shape
4. hand orientation
5. non-manual markers

Question 15

Alveolar

Answer 15

sounds that are made with the tongue tip at or near the front of the upper alveolar ridge

Question 16

Fricatives

Answer 16

sounds made by forming a nearly complete obstruction of vocal tract

Question 17

Affricatives

Answer 17

sounds made by briefly stopping the airstream completely and then releasing the articulators slightly so that frication noise is produced

Question 18

Glides

Answer 18

Sounds produced with a slight closure of articualtors and some movement of articulators during sound production

Question 19

Compression

Answer 19

air molecules are more crowded together

Question 20

Rarefraction

Answer 20

air molecules are spread farther apart from each other