LING 340

Question 1

What manners of articulation describe obstruents?

Answer 1

Plosives, Affricates, Fricatives

Question 2

What are the classes of sounds that describe sonorants?

Answer 2

Nasals, Liquids, Glides, Vowels

Question 3

What places of articulation are in the Labial section?

Answer 3

Lips / Bilabial

Question 4

What places of articulation are in the Coronal section?

Answer 4

dental, alveolar, post-alveolar, retroflex

Question 5

What are examples of sounds that are +anterior?

Answer 5

Sounds before the P-alveolar region.
t, d, n, s, z, l, θ, ɹ, ð

Question 6

What are examples of sounds that are - anterior?

Answer 6

Sounds at or behind p-alv.
ʃ ʒ ʧ ʤ

Question 7

What does it mean to be +distributed?

Answer 7

using the blade of the tongue to make the sound as opposed to the tip of the tongue.

Question 8

What manners of articulation fall into the Dorsal category?

Answer 8

Palatal, velar, uvular

Question 9

What does it mean to be +high. Give examples of sounds.

Answer 9

back of the tongue is raised to the palate.
w, /j/, k, g, ng
i, u, small cap i, upsilon

Question 10

What are sounds that are -high?

Answer 10

e, o, epsilon, upside down v, ash, a, schwa

Question 11

what are sounds that are +low?

Answer 11

ash, a

Question 12

-low?

Answer 12

i, u, e, o, epsilon, upside down v, small cap i, upsilon, schwa