Phonetics Flashcards
What are the 8 main places of articulation?
Bilabial, labiodentenal, dental, alveolar, post alveolar, palatal, velar, glottal (buying lensip doesn’t actually prevent posh people’s gas)
What are the three main features if consonants?
Voicing vs non voicing, place of articulation, manner of articulation
What are the manners of articulation?
Nasal, plosive, fricative, approximant, trill, tap and flap, lateral
“Never pray for anything that tim likes”
What is a plosive?
Plosive air stops flow completely, followed by a sudden release of air
What is a fricative?
Made by the friction of breath in a narrow opening, producing a turbulent flow.
What is approximant?
Bringing two articles close to one another without actually touching it.
What is a trill?
Where the active articulators vibrates against the passive articulators
What is a tap/flap?
Quick contact between two articulators
What are lateral consonants?
The tongue comes up at the front and closes off the front of the mouth but air is allowed to escape over the sides.
What is sound energy?
Pressure wave consisting of vibrations of molecules in an elastic medium.
What are the basic sound sources involved in the production of speech?
Voicing, noise, transients, silence
What is phonation?
Production of voice through vocal cords
What is fundamental frequency?
The rate at which vocal cords vibrate per second during voicing.
What is spectra analysis?
Graph where horizontal axis represents frequency and vehicle axes represent volume.
What is onset voicing time?
Time interval between the release of a plosive and the onset of voicing
What are a affricates?
Sound produced with closure in vocal tract
What determines stress?
Loudness and duration
What is formant frequency?
Frequencies that energy peaks are allowed to pass through the supra laryngeal tract
What determines noise at the larynx ?
Air turbulence by glottal constriction
What has a sorter interval and why. Voiced or voiceless plosives?
Voice. There is a longer interval for voiceless plosives when turbulence is generated for an an up comming vowel.
What is noise?
Complex sound waves with irregular vibrations.
How is noise generated in the larynx ?
Air turbulence at glottal constriction
Nasal mummers are a result of …..
Resonance in the naval cavity
What are formant transitions?
Rapid change in the vocal tract
What is the f2 pattern associated with bilabial consonants?
Rising f2 pattern
What is the f2 pattern associated with lateral consonants?
Rising f2
What is the f2 pattern associated with alveolar approximant consonants?
Rising f2 and 3
What is the f2 pattern associated with alveolar consonants?
Rising, calling or flat f2 depending on vowel content
What is the f2 pattern associated with velar consonants?
Falling f2
