Exam 3 Part 4

Question 1

True or false: The closing off the airflow through the nasal-pharyngeal passageway creates nasalized sounds

Answer 1

False

Question 2

In terms of the vocal tract, air must come from the lungs, pass through the larynx and then be filtered by what 3 cavities?

Answer 2

Pharyngeal, oral, nasal

Question 3

Consonants are _____ segments compared to vowels

Answer 3

Constricted

Question 4

Said to be in non-overlapping (predictable) environments

Answer 4

Allophones of the same phoneme

Question 5

What types of information do phonetic transcriptions contain (2)

Answer 5

Unpredictable and predictable

Question 6

What is the speech chain’s most important component?

Answer 6

Feedback loop

Question 7

Oral and nasal stops described articulatorily both have ___ constriction; however the differ in position of the ____

Answer 7

oral; velum

Question 8

A _____ can serve as evidence for contrastive distribution

Answer 8

Minimal pair

Question 9

A phonological rule can serve as evidence for ______ _____

Answer 9

Complementary distribution

Question 10

What consonants can only serve as syllabic consonants in coda position when the nucleus of the unstressed syllable is a schwa

Answer 10

Liquid and nasal