Phonetics Week 3

Question 1

X- Ray Photography

Answer 1

X- Rays used in conjunction with sound film. The use of this technique can reveal the details of the functioning of the vocal apparatus. The entirety of how a sound is produced is revealed and can actually be seen as it happens.

Question 2

Palatography

Answer 2

Experimental method that shows the contact between the tongue and the roof of the mouth. Can be static or dynamic.

Question 3

Sound Spectrograph

Answer 3

Equipment that generates spectrograms from speech input.

Question 4

Segments

Answer 4

The individual units of the speech stream; segments can be further subdivided into consonants and vowels.

Question 5

Suprasegmentals

Answer 5

A phonetic characteristic of speech sounds, such as length, intonation, tone, or stress, that “rides on top of” segmental features. Must usually be identified by comparison to the same feature on other sounds or strings of sounds.

Question 6

Diphthongs

Answer 6

A complex vowel, composed of a sequence of two different configurations of the vocal organs.

Question 7

Monophthongs

Answer 7

A simple vowel, composed of a single configuration of the vocal organs.

Question 8

Running Speech

Answer 8

The usual form of spoken language, with all the words and phrases run together, without pauses in between them. Sometimes called continuous speech.

Question 9

Articulatory Description

Answer 9

For an auditory-vocal language, the description of the motion or positioning of the parts of the vocal tract that are responsible for the production of a speech sound.

Question 10

Articulation

Answer 10

The motion or positioning of some part of the vocal tract )often, but not always, a muscular part such as the tongue or lips) with respect to some other surface of the vocal tract in the production of a speech sound.

Question 11

Segmental Features

Answer 11

A phonetic characteristic of speech sounds, such as voicing, place of articulation, rounding, ect.

Question 12

Larynx

Answer 12

Cartilage and muscle located at the top of the trachea , containing the vocal folds and the glottis; commonly referred to as the voice box.

Question 13

Glottal System

Answer 13

Sounds produced at the larynx.

Question 14

Trachea

Answer 14

The windpipe; the tube between the larynx and the lungs through which air travels.

Question 15

Vocal Folds

Answer 15

Folds off muscle in the larynx responsible for creating voiced sounds when they vibrate.

Question 16

Glottis

Answer 16

The space between the vocal folds.

Question 17

Voicing

Answer 17

Vibration of the approximated vocal folds caused by air passing trough them. When the vocal folds vibrate, a voiced sound is produced; when the vocal folds do not vibrate, a voiceless sound is produced.

Question 18

Bilabial

Answer 18

Sound produced by bringing both lips together.

Question 19

Labiodental

Answer 19

Sound produced by making contact between the lower lip and the upper teeth.

Question 20

Interdentals

Answer 20

Sound produced my positioning the of the tongue between the upper and lower teeth.

Question 21

Alveolar

Answer 21

Sound produced by raising the front of the tongue toward the alveolar ridge.

Question 22

Post- Alveolar

Answer 22

Sound produced by raising the tongue toward the front part of the palate, just behind the alveolar ridge.

Question 23

Palatal

Answer 23

Sound made by raising the body of the tongue toward the hard part of the roof of the mouth (i.e, the hard plalate)

Question 24

Velar

Answer 24

Sound produced by raising the back of the tongue toward the velum.

Question 25

Alveolar Ridge

Answer 25

Bony Structure located just behind the upper front teeth.