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Module 2 - Consonants, Vowels Flashcards

1
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What is a phone?

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Speech sound

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2
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What is a phoneme?

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Language specific sounds

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3
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What is articulatory phonetics?

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Study of the production of sounds produced by the vocal tract

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What are articulators?

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  • Parts in our oral, nasal and pharangeal cavities that helps to shape speech sounds
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5
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What is included in the vocal tract?

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All anatomy used to produce sound from lungs - layrnx - articulators

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What is the first stage of speech production?

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Respiration - source of air from lungs, pulmonic or exhale air

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What is the second stage of speech production?

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Phonation - buzzing sound generated by vocal folds. Raw ingredient of many sounds

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What is the third stage of speech production?

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Articulation - articulators move to transform sound to speech

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What are consonants?

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Speech sounds produced by obstruction of air-flow in the vocal tract, full stop or friction

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What are vowels?

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  • Speech sounds that have no obstruction of air-flow in the vocal tract
    Free flow of air through the vocal tract
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11
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Describe the Place in the IPA Chart?

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The place is where the air is constricted

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12
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Describe the Manner in the IPA Chart

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The way the air is obstructed (plosive, puffed out)

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Describe Voice in the IPA Chart

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Voiced means that vocal folds are vibrating

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14
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How do you describe consonants?

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Voice - place - manner
/p/ : voiceless-bilabial-oral stop

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Describe the place of Labiodental sounds

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Bottom lip (labio) touches top teeth (dental)

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15
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Describe the place of bilabial sounds

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2 lips together

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Describe the place of Alveolar sounds

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Tongue touches alveolar ridge

16
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Describe the place of Post-alveolar sounds

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Tongue is raised to the area behind the alveolar ridge

17
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Describe Palatal sounds

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Tongue is raised to the hard palate

18
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Describe Velar sounds

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Back of tongue is raised to soft palate (velum)

19
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What is a labiovelar sound

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  • /w/
    Involves rounding of lip and tongue in the velar area
19
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Describe Glottal manner of articulation

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  • Air flows through narrow glottis past the tongue and lips
  • Glottal stop
    Vocal folds close off airway completely
20
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Describe Dental Sounds

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Tongue is behind upper teeth

21
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What does manner of articulation focus on?

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  • Direction of airflow
  • Degree of constriction to impede air flow
  • If oral air flow, whether it is central or lateral
22
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Describe Stops
- continuant / non-continuant

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  • Non-continuants (block air)
  • Airflow is stopped in the cavity before it is released
  • Plosives / oral stops p b t d k g
  • Nasal stops /m n ŋ /
23
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Describe Fricatives

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  • Continuant - air flows continuously through oral cavity
  • Sound is produced by constricting the airway to cause friction
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Describe Affricates

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  • Non-continuant
  • Air is stopped initially then released slowly into a fricative
25
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Describe glides

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  • Tongue moves from one place to another
  • /w/ /j/
  • Central air flow
  • continuant
26
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Describe Approximants

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  • Continuants (similar to vowels, air flows continuously)
  • Cannot form a syllable
27
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Describe liquids

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  • /l/ - continual lateral air flow
    /ɹ/ - continuant central air flow
28
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Define Voiced

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Vocal folds are held close together and vibrate

29
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Define Voiceless

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  • No vocal fold vibration
    Vocal folds are apart, air flows freely through the glottis
30
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What are vowels?

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  • Speech sounds produced with no constriction of air
  • Produced by changing size and shape of the oral cavity and movement of lips and tongue
  • Loud, carry pitch
  • They are the nucleus of a syllable
31
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What does HPT stand for?

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Highest Point of Tongue

32
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How do you describe vowels?

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  • Height tongue-frontedness-rounding of lips
    • /e/ : high-front-unrounded sound
  • By length of sound
    –Long vowel /ɐː/ Short vowel /ɐ/
33
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Which vowel is the neutral?

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  • Schwa
    Only occurs in unstressed syllables
34
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What is a monophthong

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  • Stable articulatory position
  • No dynamic movement
    One vowel phoneme
35
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What is a diphthong?

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  • Dynamic movement, change in articulator positions
    One vowel phoneme represented by 2 vowel symbols
36
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What is a rising diphthong?

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Ending vowel sound has a higher HPT than the beginning

37
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What is a falling diphthong?

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Ending vowel sound has a lower HPT than the beginning

38
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Define orthography

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  • Representation of speech sounds using the alphabet
    Spelling rules and conventions for writing symbols
39
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Define Syllable

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  • Syllable is a unit of sound that forms the building block of a word
  • Rhythm of a word
    Must contain one vowel

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