Module 2, Week 3 Vocabulary

Question 1

Articulatory phonetics

Answer 1

Study of the production of speech sounds

Question 2

Acoustic phonetics

Answer 2

Study of the transmission and the physical properties of speech sounds

Question 3

Nucleus

Answer 3

Vocalic part of rhyme

Question 4

Coda

Answer 4

Consists of any final consonants

Question 5

Bilabial

Answer 5

Consonants made by bringing both lips close together

Question 6

Interdentals

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Ladiodental

Answer 7

Consonants made with the lower lip against the upper front teeth

Question 8

Alveolar

Answer 8

Sounds made with the tongue tip at or near the front of the upper alveolar ridge

Question 9

Alveolar Ridge

Answer 9

Bony ridges of the upper and lower jaws that contain the sockets for the teeth

Question 10

Post-Aveolar

Answer 10

Sounds made a bit farther back; with the front of the tongue just behind the alveolar ridge, right at the front of the hard palate

Question 11

Palatal

Answer 11

Made with the body of the tongue near the center of the hard portion of the mouth

Question 12

Velar

Answer 12

Consonants are produced at the velum

Question 13

Velum

Answer 13

soft palate, which is the soft part of the roof of the mouth behind the hard palate

Question 14

Glottal

Answer 14

Sounds produced when air is contracted at the larynx

Question 15

Stops

Answer 15

Made by obstructing the airstream completely in the oral cavity

Question 16

Fricatives

Answer 16

Made by forming a nearly complete obstruction of the vocal tract

Question 17

Frication

Answer 17

Turbulent, hissing mouth noise

Question 18

Affricates

Answer 18

Complex sounds, made briefly by stopping the airstream completely and then releasing the articulators slightly so that frication noise is produced.

Question 19

Nasals

Answer 19

Produced by relaxing the velum and lowering it, thus opening the nasal passage to the vocal tract.

Question 20

Stress

Answer 20

Like tone, it is a property of entire syllables, not segments, though the syllable nucleus, which is usually a vowel, carries most of the information about stress.