Module 2, Week 3 Vocabulary Flashcards
Articulatory phonetics
Study of the production of speech sounds
Acoustic phonetics
Study of the transmission and the physical properties of speech sounds
Nucleus
Vocalic part of rhyme
Coda
Consists of any final consonants
Bilabial
Consonants made by bringing both lips close together
Interdentals
Made with the tip of the tongue protruding between the front teeth
Ladiodental
Consonants made with the lower lip against the upper front teeth
Alveolar
Sounds made with the tongue tip at or near the front of the upper alveolar ridge
Alveolar Ridge
Bony ridges of the upper and lower jaws that contain the sockets for the teeth
Post-Aveolar
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
Palatal
Made with the body of the tongue near the center of the hard portion of the mouth
Velar
Consonants are produced at the velum
Velum
soft palate, which is the soft part of the roof of the mouth behind the hard palate
Glottal
Sounds produced when air is contracted at the larynx
Stops
Made by obstructing the airstream completely in the oral cavity
Fricatives
Made by forming a nearly complete obstruction of the vocal tract
Frication
Turbulent, hissing mouth noise
Affricates
Complex sounds, made briefly by stopping the airstream completely and then releasing the articulators slightly so that frication noise is produced.
Nasals
Produced by relaxing the velum and lowering it, thus opening the nasal passage to the vocal tract.
Stress
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.
