Module 2 Chapter 2 Vocab Terms

Question 1

articulatory phonetics

Answer 1

subfield of phonetics concerned with the production of speech sounds

Question 2

acoustic phonetics

Answer 2

subfield of phonetics concerned with physical characteristics of the sounds of speech (transmission)

Question 3

auditory phonetics

Answer 3

subfield of phonetics concerned with the perception of speech sounds

Question 4

monophthong

Answer 4

a simple vowel , composed of a single configuration of the vocal organs

Question 5

diphthong

Answer 5

a complex vowel, composed of a sequence of two different configurations of the vocal organs

Question 6

articulatory description

Answer 6

for an auditory vocal language, the description of the motion or positioning of the parts of the vocal tract that are responsible for the production of a speech sound

Question 7

segmental feature

Answer 7

phonetic characteristic of speech sounds such as voicing, place of articulation, rounding

Question 8

voicing

Answer 8

vibration of the approximated vocal folds caused by air passing through them. When the vocal folds vibrate a voiced sound is produced, when they do not vibrate a voiceless sound is produced

Question 9

spectrogram

Answer 9

a three-dimensional representation of sound in which the vertical axis represents frequency, the horizontal axis represents time, and the darkness of shading represents amplitude

Question 10

voicing bar

Answer 10

the dark band at the bottom of a spectrogram that indicates that a sound is voiced

Question 11

place of articulation

Answer 11

the place in the vocal tract where the constriction for the production of speech sound is made

Question 12

manner of articulation

Answer 12

term used to refer to how the airstream is modified by the articulators in the vocal tract to produce a sound

Question 13

fricative

Answer 13

a sound made by forming a nearly complete obstruction of the airstream so that when air passes through the small passage, turbulent airflow is produced

Question 14

affricate

Answer 14

sound produced by complete obstruction of the airflow followed by a slight release of the obstruction, allowing frication. An affricate can be thought of as a combination of a stop and a fricative

Question 15

glide

Answer 15

sound produced with a constriction in the vocal tract that is only slightly more constricted than that of vowels

Question 16

stops

Answer 16

sound produced by completely obstructing the airstream in the oral cavity and then quickly releasing the constriction to allow the air to escape.

Question 17

nasal speech sound

Answer 17

sound produced by making a complete obstruction of the airflow in the oral cavity and lowering the velum to allow air to pass through the nasal cavity

Question 18

liquids

Answer 18

consonant sound produced by an obstruction of airflow that is less narrow than that of stops on fricatives, but more narrow than that of glides

Question 19

flap

Answer 19

a sound produced by bringing two articulators together very quickly

Question 20

co-articulation

Answer 20

the adjustment of articulation of a segment to accommodate the phonetic environment it is produced it