Final

Question 1

What’s the initionator for the Pulmonic airstream mechanism?

Ch 6

Answer 1

the lungs

Question 2

what’s the initiator for the glottalic airstream mechanism?

Answer 2

The glottis

Question 3

what’s the intitator for the velaric airstream mechanism?

Answer 3

The velum

Question 4

What are the three airstream mechanisms?

Answer 4

1. pulmonic
2. gottalic
3. velaric

Question 5

All English sounds use which aristream mechanism?

Answer 5

Pulmonic

Question 6

What is pressure [+] in the lungs known as?

Answer 6

Subglottal pressure

Question 7

How would you identify a stop on a spectrogram?

Answer 7

A white (blank) space on the spectrogram.

Voiced stops have a voice bar on the bottom of the spectrogram

Question 8

How would you Identify a fricative on a spectrogram?

Answer 8

High freq. Fuzzies

Question 9

How would you Identify a vowel on a spectrogram?

Answer 9

You will see clearly three darks bars (formants)

Question 10

How can you identify specific vowels using formant structure?

Answer 10

For frontal Vowels F2 and F3 are closer for Back vowels F1 and F2 are closer