just terms nolabial phonetics but biology

Question 1

What does bilabial mean

Answer 1

made by the lip positions (not what question asks but eg. m,w,b,p)

Question 2

What does velar mean?

Answer 2

It’s made right at the back of your mouth (g,k,ŋ)(the soft part)

Question 3

What does alveolar mean?

Answer 3

It’s when the tongue is doing something/positioned by the ridge that’s right by your teeth (further inside mouth than out). (eg. n,z,d,t)

Question 4

What’s labiodental?

Answer 4

f-boy face. (upper teeth touching lower lip). (eg. v,f)

Question 5

what’s dental?

Answer 5

tongue touching upper teeth. (θ, ð)

Question 6

What’s palatial

Answer 6

It’s when the main part of the tongue is by the hard roof part of your mouth

Question 7

What’s a glotal?

Answer 7

it’s formed in a glotal place (obvs). The bit that’s in your throat. (one spot in vocal chords)

Question 8

What makes something plosive?

Answer 8

Bring parts of the mouth together to obstruct air flow.

Question 9

What makes something fricative?

Answer 9

air flow passed through a steady stream

Question 10

What makes something africate?

Answer 10

a plosive followed by a fricative (eg.ʤ)

Question 11

What make something nasal?

Answer 11

air coming out of nose (eg.m)

Question 12

What makes something lateral?

Answer 12

air flows down the side of your mouth (eg. l)

Question 13

approximants

Answer 13

Fun vowels (This name comes from the fact that the articulators are brought into closer contact, or approximation, than in any of the properly recognised vowels.)