EL-101 (FInals Reviewer) (1st Sem)

Question 1

The study of speech sounds is called
__________. It is also often described as
the scientificstudy of speech
production

Answer 1

phonetics

Question 2

the physical characteristics of
the resulting sound waves that pass
between thespeaker’s vocal tract and
the listener’sears

Answer 2

Acoustic Phonetics

Question 3

the processes that generate
an air stream which carries
linguistic content

Answer 3

Articulatory Phonetics

Question 4

the processes whereby the
mechanical movements of the eardrum,
created by theaction of the sound
waves, are transmitted into the
middle and inner ear and
perceived at a critical level as sound

Answer 4

Auditory phonetics

Question 5

Is concerned with the function of sounds (Status and inventory in any given language)

Answer 5

Phonology

Question 6

To describe speech sounds?

Answer 6

it is necesssary to know what an individual sound is and how each sounds differs from all others

Question 7

The opening between the vocal chords is?

Answer 7

Glottis and located at larynx

Question 8

Voice Box

Answer 8

Larynx

Question 9

Speaking starts with the movement of the air out of the body through exhalation

Question 10

it is possible to produce
speech sounds while inhaling

Answer 10

Ingressive sounds

Question 11

most sounds in
all languages are produced by
expelling air

Answer 11

Egressive Sound

Question 12

Speaking starts with the movement of air out the of the body through exhalation

Answer 12

Respiration

Question 13

Stages of sound production?

Answer 13

Respiration
Vibration
Resonation
Articulation

Question 14

Most speech sounds are produced by?

Answer 14

by pushing lung air through _______ between the vocal chords, up the throat and into mouth or nose, and finally out of the body

Question 15

Phonation takes place when voice is produced in speaking as the expiratory air steam from the lungs goes up through the trachea or windpipe to larynx

Answer 15

Vibration

Question 16

Trachea is also known as?

Answer 16

windpipe

Question 17

is the process of voice
amplification and modification. The
initial sound ismade loud and amplified
into one true voice by the air chambers
in our body calledresonators. When
the sound enters an air chamber, the
sound reverberates and isconsequently
multiplied before leaving the air
chamber.

Answer 17

Resonation

Question 18

When the tone produced in the larynx change into specific sounds

Answer 18

Articulation

Question 19

Can be moved into numerous positions, essential to artuculation

Answer 19

Lips

Question 20

which serve as
important surfaces in articulation

Answer 20

Teeth

Question 21

Serves as another important surface against which tongue make contact

Answer 21

Hard palate?/Dome

Question 22

The small nub on the lower border of soft palate

Answer 22

Uvula

Question 23

Most important articulator of speech
as it is responsible for different
sounds depending on how it is
positioned in themouth

Answer 23

Tongue

Question 24

2 classes of sound in language

Answer 24

Vowels , consonants

Question 25

Three properties of consonants

Answer 25

1.Voicing- whether the vocal chords are vibrating or not 2.place of articulation 3.manner of articulation

Question 26

Whether the airsteam is most obstructed

Answer 26

Place of articulation

Question 27

The PARTICULAR way the airsteam is obstructed

Answer 27

Manner of Articulation

Question 28

When vocal chords are spread apart without vibration

Answer 28

Voiceless

Question 29

When vocal cords are drawn together with vibration

Answer 29

Voiced

Question 30

Sounds formed by bringing the lips together

Answer 30

Bilabials

Question 31

Sounds formed by touching bottom lips to upper teeth

Answer 31

labiodentals

Question 32

Sounds formed by inserting the tip of the lip between the upper teeth and lower teeth

Answer 32

Dental/Interdentals

Question 33

Sounds formed by raising tongue in the alveolar ridge

Answer 33

Alveolars

Question 34

Sound formed when the frontal part tongue is raised to a point on the hard palate

Answer 34

Palatals

Question 35

Sounds produced with the back of tongue against the velum/soft palate

Answer 35

velars

Question 36

it's sound is form the flow of air through open glottis, can be produced without the help of parts of mouth

Answer 36

glottals

Question 37

Speech sounds also vary in the way the airstream is affected as it flows from the lungs up and out of the mouth and nose. It may be blocked or partially blocked; the vocal cords may vibrate or not vibrate.

Answer 37

manner of articualation

Question 38

Stops are formed when air is built up in the vocal tract and suddenly releasedthrough the mouth. These are produced by some form of ‘stopping’ of theairstream (very briefly) then letting it go abruptly.

Answer 38

Stops/Plosives

Question 39

are articulated by almost blocking the airstream and having the airpush through the very narrow opening.

Answer 39

Fricatives

Question 40

In the pronunciation of an affricate, air is built up by a complete closure of theoral tract at someplace of articulation,

Answer 40

affricates

Question 41

______ are pronounced by lowering the velum, thus allowing thestream of air to pass out through the nasal cavity instead of the oral cavity.

Answer 41

Nasal consonants

Question 42

In the production of this sound, there is some obstruction of the airstream inthe mouth, but not enough to cause any real constriction or friction.

Answer 42

Liquids

Question 43

These sounds are typically produced with the tongue in motion (gliding) to or from the position of a vowel and are sometimes called semi-vowels or approximants.

Answer 43

Glides

Question 44

are produced with a relatively free flow of air. They are all typically voiced.

Answer 44

Vowels

Question 45

is a sequence of two sounds, vowel + glide.

Answer 45

Dipthongs

Question 46

is essentiallythe description of the systems and patterns of speech sounds in a language

Answer 46

Phonology

Question 47

The part of grammar that represents a speaker’s knowledge of sentences and their structures is called

Answer 47

Syntax