Language Files Chapter 2

Question 1

Phoentics

Answer 1

The study of the minimal units that make up language

Question 2

Articulatory Phoentics

Answer 2

The study of of the production of speech sounds

Question 3

Acoustic Phonetics

Answer 3

The study of the production of speech sounds

Question 4

Auditory Phonetics

Answer 4

The study of the perception of speech sounds

Question 5

Palatography

Answer 5

Experimental method that shows the contact between the tongue and the roof of the mouth

Question 6

Segments

Answer 6

Discrete units of the speech stream which can be further subdivided into the categories consonants and vowels

Question 7

Suprasegmentals

Answer 7

A phonetic characteristic of speech sounds, such as length, intonation, tone or stress that rides on top of segmental features Must usually be identified by comparison to the same feature on other sounds or strings of sounds

Question 8

larnyx

Answer 8

Contains the vocal folds and the glottis

Question 9

Vocal tract

Answer 9

Area above the larnyx composed of the oral and nasal cavities

Question 10

Glottal system

Answer 10

Part of the respiratory system located below the larynx

Question 11

Voicing

Answer 11

The vibration that is caused by the vocal folds

Question 12

Bilabial

Answer 12

Consonants are made by bringing both lips closer together.

Question 13

Labiodental

Answer 13

Consonants are made with the lower lip against the upper front teeth

Question 14

Interdentals

Answer 14

Made with the tip of the tongue protruding between the front teeth

Question 15

Alveolar

Answer 15

Sounds made with the tongue tip at or near the alvelor ridge, a small ridge that protrudes just behind your upper front teeth

Question 16

Fricatives

Answer 16

Made by forming a nearly complete obstruction of the vocal tract.

Question 17

Affricates

Answer 17

Made by briefly stopping the airstream completely and then releasing the articulator slightly so that frication noise is produced

Question 18

diphthongs

Answer 18

Complex vowel sounds, as opposed to monophthongs which are simple vowel sounds

Question 19

Intonation

Answer 19

The pattern of pitch movements across a stretch of speech such as a sentence

Question 20

Palatography

Answer 20

A method to observe contact between the tongue and the roof of the mouth.