International Phonetic Alphabet

Question 1

Pulmonic Egressive Airstream Mechanism

Answer 1

The mechanism of pushing air out from the lungs through the mouth or nose to produce sound.

Question 2

Articulators

Answer 2

All parts of the vocal apparatus involved in speech

Question 3

Active Articulators

Answer 3

All parts of the vocal apparatus that can be moved eg., the tongue, lower jaw, lips

Question 4

Passive Articulators

Answer 4

All parts of the vocal apparatus that are stationary eg., the upper teeth, hard palate…

Question 5

Place of Articulation

Answer 5

The point of the closest restriction in the vocal tract that is used as criterion for the description and classification of consonants

Question 6

Bilabial Sounds

Answer 6

Sounds created using both lips

Question 7

Labio dentals

Answer 7

Sounds created involving lower lip and upper teeth

Question 8

Interdental

Answer 8

Sounds created by using the tongue to slightly protrude through the upper and bottom teeth. Mainly used for the [θ]

Question 9

Palato alveolar

Answer 9

Sound created by the constriction between the alveolar ridge or the hard palate and the tip of the tongue.

Question 10

Velar sound

Answer 10

Used with [k] the obstruction at the velar or soft palate and back part of the tongue

Question 11

Onset

Answer 11

The consonant or set of consonants that are located before the nucleus or vowel of word

Question 12

Nucleus

Answer 12

the vowel that consonants are built around in order to create a syllable CVC CCVCC some times a consonant can act as a nucleus such as in the word nerve /nɹ̩v/ a stroke is placed under the consonant sound.

Question 13

Coda

Answer 13

The end of the syllable

Question 14

Dipthong

Answer 14

multiple vowels sounds with in the same nucleus

Question 15

Utterance

Answer 15

A fluid stream of sound that occurs while some one is speaking or reading a sentence, this is without pauses or stops also can be a chunk of spoken language

Question 16

Assimilation

Answer 16

phonemes pronounced next to each other that become more alike. [n] and [ŋ] are versions of the sound /n/

Question 17

Stress Accent

Answer 17

Saying one syllable louder than the surrounding syllables ho-tel the tel wold be pronounced louder hos-tel the hos would be pronounced louder

Question 18

Prosody

Answer 18

The application of features like intonation or stress at the level of an entire phrase or utterance.

Question 19

Fricative Sounds

Answer 19

Derived from the word friction a sound caused by a narrow passage made by the place of articulation such as that of the upper dentallabio creating a [f] sound.

Question 20

Approximates

Answer 20

articulators that approach each other but do not cause a strong constriction on the vocal tract. There is no complete closure, air can pass through without audible friction [l] [ɹ] are both lateral approximate but the tongue placement distinguishes the sound

Question 21

nasals

Answer 21

sounds created as air moves through the nasal passage [m] [n] [ŋ]

Question 22

Voiced sounds

Answer 22

Sounds that cause vibration of the vocal cords as air released through the glottis

Question 23

Voiceless sounds

Answer 23

Sounds that do not cause vibration as air is released through the glottis

Question 24

ʌ

Answer 24

the u in Cup or luck

Question 25

æ

Answer 25

the a in cat or hat

Question 26

ə

Answer 26

the way the A in Away and the E in cinema make a short u sound

Question 27

ɜ:ʳ

Answer 27

the ur un turn or burn

Question 28

ʊəʳ

Answer 28

the ur in pure or our in tourist

Question 29

ɪəʳ

Answer 29

the ear in near or er in here

Question 30

eəʳ

Answer 30

the er in where or air in Air

Question 31

ɔɪ

Answer 31

the oy in boy or oi in join

Question 32

oʊ

Answer 32

the o in home or o in go

Question 33

eɪ

Answer 33

the ay in day or eigh in eight

Question 34

aʊ

Answer 34

the ou in out or ow in now

Question 35

aɪ

Answer 35

the i five or y in eye or eigh on height

Question 36

u:

Answer 36

the u in blue or oo in food

Question 37

ʊ

Answer 37

the u in put or oo in cook

Question 38

ɒ

Answer 38

the o in rock or hot

Question 39

i:

Answer 39

the ea in seat or ee in see

Question 40

ɪ

Answer 40

the i in sit or sitting