chose your vocab

Question 1

suprasegmentals

Answer 1

A phonetic characteristic of speech sounds such as length, intonation, tones, or stress that “rides on top of” segmental features. Must usually be identified by comparison to the same feature on other sounds or strings of sounds.

Question 2

dipthongs

Answer 2

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

Question 3

monothongs

Answer 3

A simple vowel, composed of a single configuration of the vocal organs.

Question 4

larynx

Answer 4

cartilage and muscle located at the top of the trachea, containing the vocal chords

Question 5

labiodental

Answer 5

sounds produced by making contact between the lower lip and the upper teeth

Question 6

glottal

Answer 6

sounds produced at the larynx

Question 7

palatalized

Answer 7

A term used to describe the articulation of a sound that involves the tongue moving toward the hard palate

Question 8

airstream mechanism

Answer 8

any of the various ways to produce a stream of moving air through the vocal tract for the production of speech sounds. some major mechanisms are pulmonic, glottalic, and velar; each may be produced with an egressive or an ingressive airstream

Question 9

segments

Answer 9

a phonetic characteristics of speech sounds, such as voicing, place of articulation, rounding,

Question 10

pitch accents

Answer 10

A change in fundamental frequency used to put prominence on a particular word in an utterance

Question 11

stress

Answer 11

A property of syllables; a stressed syllable is more prominent and an unstressed one due to having greater loudness, longer duration, different pitch, or full vowels

Question 12

rarefaction

Answer 12

Physical phenomenon by which air molecules become less concentrated within a given space

Question 13

harmonics

Answer 13

overtone of the fundamental frequency of the vocal tract; multiple of the fundamental frequency

Question 14

spectrogram

Answer 14

A three-dimensional representation of sound in which the vertical axis represents frequency, the horizontal axis represents time, and the darkness of shading represents amplitude

Question 15

aspiration

Answer 15

A puff of air that follows the release of a consonant when there is a delay in the onset of voicing.

Question 16

semivowels

Answer 16

Sound produced with only slight closure of the articulators and that requires some movement of the articulators during production,

Question 17

primes

Answer 17

With regard to visual-gestural languages, a fundamental element, equivalent in many ways to a phoneme in an auditory-vocal language, with the exception the primes are produced simultaneously , whereas phonemes can be produced only sequentially.

Question 18

location

Answer 18

where a sign takes place; one of the parameters of visual-gestural languages.

Question 19

movement

Answer 19

whether hands move during a sign, and, if so, the path of that motion; one of the parameters of a visual-gestural language

Question 20

handshape

Answer 20

The configuration of the hands and fingers in a sign; one of the parameters of visual-gestural language.