phonetics chapter- Anna Verlinden

Question 1

phonetics

Answer 1

the study of the minimal units that makeup a language

Question 2

articulatory phonetics

Answer 2

the study of the production of speech sounds

Question 3

acoustic phonetics

Answer 3

the study of the transmission and the physical properties of speech sounds

Question 4

auditory phonetics

Answer 4

the study of the perception of speech sounds

Question 5

monophthongs

Answer 5

simple vowels composed of a single configuration of the vocal tract

Question 6

diphthongs

Answer 6

complex vowels composed of a sequence of two different configurations

Question 7

segmental features

Answer 7

voicing, place, and manner of articulation

Question 8

voice bar

Answer 8

the dark band at the bottom of a spectrogram that indicates that a sound is voiced

Question 9

spectrogram

Answer 9

a three-dimensional representation of sound in which the vertical axis represents frequency, the horizontal axis represents time, and the darkness of shading represents amplitude

Question 10

stops

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made by obstructing the airstream completely in the oral cavity

Question 11

fricatives

Answer 11

made by forming a nearly complete obstruction of the vocal tract

Question 12

affricates

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

Question 13

frication

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a turbulent hissing mouth noise that is produced by forming a nearly complete obstruction of the vocal tract. the opening through which the air escapes is very small, and as a result a turbulent noise is produced

Question 14

nasals

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are produced by relaxing the velum and lowering it, thus opening the nasal passage through the vocal tract

Question 15

aspiration

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a puff of air that follows the release of a consonant sound where there is a delay in the onset of voicing. Symbolized by a superscript

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Impressionistic Phonetic Transcription

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A method of writing down speech sounds with the intent of capturing how they are pronounced. Usually based simply on how the sounds are perceived when heard without any special analysis

Question 17

co-articulation

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the influence of one sound on a neighboring sound

Question 18

syllable

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a unit of speech made up of an onset and ryhme

Question 19

subglottal system

Answer 19

which is the part of the respiratory system located below the larynx

Question 20

glottis

Answer 20

space between the vocal cords