Phonetics Week 3 Flashcards
(25 cards)
X- Ray Photography
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.
Palatography
Experimental method that shows the contact between the tongue and the roof of the mouth. Can be static or dynamic.
Sound Spectrograph
Equipment that generates spectrograms from speech input.
Segments
The individual units of the speech stream; segments can be further subdivided into consonants and vowels.
Suprasegmentals
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.
Diphthongs
A complex vowel, composed of a sequence of two different configurations of the vocal organs.
Monophthongs
A simple vowel, composed of a single configuration of the vocal organs.
Running Speech
The usual form of spoken language, with all the words and phrases run together, without pauses in between them. Sometimes called continuous speech.
Articulatory Description
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.
Articulation
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.
Segmental Features
A phonetic characteristic of speech sounds, such as voicing, place of articulation, rounding, ect.
Larynx
Cartilage and muscle located at the top of the trachea , containing the vocal folds and the glottis; commonly referred to as the voice box.
Glottal System
Sounds produced at the larynx.
Trachea
The windpipe; the tube between the larynx and the lungs through which air travels.
Vocal Folds
Folds off muscle in the larynx responsible for creating voiced sounds when they vibrate.
Glottis
The space between the vocal folds.
Voicing
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.
Bilabial
Sound produced by bringing both lips together.
Labiodental
Sound produced by making contact between the lower lip and the upper teeth.
Interdentals
Sound produced my positioning the of the tongue between the upper and lower teeth.
Alveolar
Sound produced by raising the front of the tongue toward the alveolar ridge.
Post- Alveolar
Sound produced by raising the tongue toward the front part of the palate, just behind the alveolar ridge.
Palatal
Sound made by raising the body of the tongue toward the hard part of the roof of the mouth (i.e, the hard plalate)
Velar
Sound produced by raising the back of the tongue toward the velum.
