Phonetics Flashcards
Phonetics
The study of minimal units that make up language
Nucleus
Vocalic part of a rhyme
Manner of articulation
How the air stream is modified by the vocal tract to create sound
Monophthongs
Simple vowel sounds
Dipthongs
complex vowel sounds
Intonation
The pattern of which movements across a stretch of speech in a sentence
Spectrogram
a common method of visually representing acoustic properties of speech sounds
articulatory phonetics
the study of the production of speech sounds
acoustics phonetics
the study of the transmission and the physical properties of speech sounds
auditory phonetics
the study of the perception of speech sounds
phonetic transcription
a method of writing down speech sounds in order to capture what is said and how it is produced
syllable
a unit of speech- every utterance of a word is at least once syllable
articulation (articulatory gesture)
the motion or position of some part of the vocal tract with the respect to some other part of the vocal tract in the production of a speech sound
segmental features
the voicing, place and manner of articulation
fricatives
sounds made by forming a nearly complete obstruction of the vocal tract
affricates
sounds made by briefly stopping the airsteam completely and the releasing slightly so that frication noise is produced
Frication
a hissing sound that is produced
static palatography
practice of painting the tongue black with tasteless olive oil and charcoal powder
tone
pitch at which syllables in a word are pronounced
Harmonics
repeat frequencies which are multiples of the fundamental wave
