Choose your vocab: File 2

Question 1

Articulators

Answer 1

All parts of vocal apparatus involved in speech production. Some can be moved (tongue, lips, lower jaw) and some cannot (upper teeth, hard palate).

Question 2

Place of Articulation

Answer 2

Blockages at different places in the oral cavity.

Question 3

Bilabial Sounds

Type of Articulation

Answer 3

Involving constriction of lips. [b] and [w].

Question 4

Alveolar

Type of Articulation

Answer 4

Obstruction at the alveolar ridge . [d]

Question 5

Labio-dentals

Type of Articulation

Answer 5

Involve only the lower lip and the upper front teeth. [f]

Question 6

Dental

Type of Articulation

Answer 6

Lips are not involved. Produced with tongue immediately behind upper front teeth or between upper and lower front teeth.

Question 7

Palato-alveolar

Type of Articulation

Answer 7

Constriction between the hard palate and alveolar ridge (slightly behind alveolar sounds). (“sh” sound.)

Question 8

Platal

Type of Articulation

Answer 8

Tongue raised toward hard palate. [j]

Question 9

Velar

Type of Articulation

Answer 9

Obstruction of velum. [k]

Question 10

Glottal

Type of Articulation

Answer 10

Airstream obstructed by glottis. [h]

Question 11

Manner of Articulation

Answer 11

The different ways that speakers can block airflow through the oral cavity using different types of constrictions.

Question 12

Stops

Classes of Consonants and manner of articulation

Answer 12

When the airflow stops completely. [b, p, k]

Same as plosives.

Question 13

Plosives

Classes of Consonants and manner of articulation

Answer 13

A burst of air at the moment of a release. [p, b, t, d, k, g]
Same as stops.

Question 14

Fricatives

Classes of Consonants and manner of articulation

Answer 14

Leaving a narrow passage where air can escape and causes friction. [f, v, “th”, s, z, “sh”, h]

Question 15

Affricatives

Classes of Consonants and manner of articulation

Answer 15

Combines 2 manners of production and is regarded as one unit. It is the stoppage of airflow and a prolonged release with a narrow opening and there is friction. [“ch”, “g”]

Question 16

Approximants

Classes of Consonants and manner of articulation

Answer 16

Sounds created with less turbulence in the airstream, no complete closure, articulators leave enough space for air to pass without audible friction. [l, “upside down r”, w, j]

Question 17

Nasals

Classes of Consonants and manner of articulation

Answer 17

Lips are closed and no air escapes. [m, n, “ng”]

Question 18

Vocal cords

Answer 18

Two muscular folds by the larynx. When they are apart, the air passes freely and there is no vibration. [s] When they are together, the air pushes through and forces them apart causing a vibration. [z]

Question 19

Voiceless

Answer 19

When no vibration of the vocal cords is caused. [p, t, k, “ch”, f, “th”, s, “sh”, h]

Question 20

Voiced

Answer 20

When there is a vibration of the vocal cords. Includes all vowels, approximants, nasals, and a number of fricatives, stops, and affricatives.

Question 21

Unrounded

Answer 21

Vowels pronounced with lips spread.