eng 211 chapter 2

Question 1

bilabial

Answer 1

constants are made by bringing both lips closer together

Question 2

Tone

Answer 2

the pitch at which the syllables in a word are pronounce

Question 3

intonation

Answer 3

the pattern of pitch movements across a stretch of speech such as a sentence.

Question 4

vocal tract

Answer 4

is above the larynx is composed of the oral and nasal cavities

Question 5

larynx

Answer 5

contains the vocal folds and the glottis (voice box)

Question 6

palatography

Answer 6

to observe contact between the tongue and the roof of the mouth and instruments to measure air flow and air pressure during speech

Question 7

sound spectrogaphy

Answer 7

measures pictures of sound

Question 8

impressionistic phonetic transcription

Answer 8

method of analysis writing down speech sounds in order to capture whats said and how its pronounced,

Question 9

syllable

Answer 9

is a unit of speech (every utterance contains at least one syllable)

Question 10

nucleus

Answer 10

is the vocalic part of a rhythm (stress,volume,pitch) “heart of the syllable”

Question 11

diphthongs

Answer 11

complex vowels composed of a sequence of 2 diffrent configurations

Question 12

auditory phonetics

Answer 12

the story of the perception of speech sounds

Question 13

phonetics

Answer 13

is the study of minimal units that make up a language

Question 14

articulatory phonetics

Answer 14

the study of the production of speech sounds

Question 15

acoustic phonetics

Answer 15

the study of the transmissions and the physical properties of speech sounds

Question 16

suprasegmental

Answer 16

a phonetic characteristic of speech sounds as length tone or stress that “rides on top off” segmental features must usually be identified by comparison to the same feature on the other sounds or strings of sound

Question 17

segmrnt

Answer 17

the individual units of the speech stream, segments can be further subdivided into consonants and vowels

Question 18

rarefaction

Answer 18

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

Question 19

pharynx

Answer 19

the part of the oral tract above the larynx but behind the uvula. commonly referred to as the throat

Question 20

compression

Answer 20

physical phenomenon resulting in a higher concentration of air molecules within a given space

Question 21

air stream mechanism

Answer 21

any way to produce a stream of moving air through the vocal tract for the production of speech (some are pulmonic,glottalic, and velar each can be ingressive or egressive air stream.