✅Place And Manner Of Articulation Flashcards
If something is alveolar where does the tongue touch?
The alveolar ridge
Where is the tongue if it is post alveolar?
Behind the alveolar ridge
Where does the tongue touch if it is palatal?
Hard palate
Where does the tongue touch if it is velar?
Soft palate/ velum
Where does the tongue touch if it is uvular?
Uvula
What is involved in a glottal sound?
Vocal folds, glottis
What is labial velar articulation?
Double articulation
What is the manner of articulation?
The relationship between the articulators
What is complete constriction?
The air is completely blocked in the oral cavity
What happens when a plosive is produced?
Oral STOP
Complete tight closure in the oral cavity lasting about 40-150ms
Velum is raised
Quick release (burst)
What happens when a nasal is produced?
Nasal STOP
The velum is lowered
Oral cavity is closed
What happens when a tap is produced?
Single quick closing and opening of constriction in oral cavity
What happens when a trill is made?
Rapid repeated closures
What happens in an English fricative?
Air from lungs flows through narrow opening (closed velum)
What happens in an english later approximant?
Closure with alveolar ridge
Opening at sides of tongue
What is an affricate?
Approach = plosive Release = fricative
How can affricates be produced?
By any combination of plosive and fricative at the same place of articulation
What are the five degrees of closure/structure in the oral cavity?
- Complete closure
- Intermittent closure
- Narrow closure
- Partial closure
- Open
What happens in complete closure?
The active articulator makes air tight contact with the passive articulator and air becomes compressed behind the closure. The velum can be raised (in the case of oral stops) or lowered (nasal stops). The closure is maintained for a short period of time and then released.
What happens in intermittent closure?
There is intermittent passage of the air stream through the oral cavity. Rapid vibration of the active articulator against the passive articulator produces the alternate opening and closing of the vocal tract at the place of articulation.
How are trills produced?
Vibration is not caused by muscular action. The active articulator, which is sufficiently elastic, is held in such a position that the air stream, in passing by it, will cause it to vibrate. There are several rapidly repeated closures and openings of the air passage.
How are taps produced?
There is a single fast closing and opening of the air passage in the oral cavity. The active articulator strikes only once against the passive articulator.
What happens in partial closure?
The passage of air through the oral cavity is blocked centrally but is permitted laterally so that air passes around the central obstruction on one or both sides.
How are fricatives produced?
There is a very close approximation of the passive and active articulators so that when air passes through the obstruction it becomes turbulent. This turbulence is heard as friction. The friction is produced in the oral cavity between the articulators, therefore both voiced and voiceless fricatives are heard with friction.
How are approximants produced?
The active and passive articulators are not close enough to produced friction but they still shape the cavities through which the air flows.
There is usually a central passage of airflow which is not laminar (not turbulent). Approximants are also referred to as semivowels, as they are similar to vowels in articulation but function as consonants. All approximants are voiced.
What do open approximants tend to be?
Vowels
What is an active articulator?
An articulator that moves (tongue/lips)
In production there is usually 2 types of articulators, what are they?
Passive
Active
What is the place of articulation?
When we describe where consonant sounds are produced we mention what place in the oral cavity the active articulator is in contact with.
What articulators are used when a glottal plosive is produced?
No oral articulators
What happens when a glottal plosive is produced?
the vocal folds act in the same way as oral articulators to produce a complete, but brief closure.
What is the name of the place of articulation for the sounds /f/ and /v/?
Labia dental
When a sound is articulated using the two lips it is called what?
Bilabial sound
Two sounds in english are made at the glottal place of articulation, what are they?
‘H’ and glottal stop
The following sounds are all made at which place of articulation: /r/ /l/ /s/ /z/ /t/ /d/?
Alveolar
The sound /j/ is made at what place of articulation?
Palatal
What is the name used for sounds that are made with turbulent airflow?
Fricatives
Question text
What type of sounds are made with the articulators in complete contact?
Plosives and nasals
What manner of articulation are the sounds /f/ and /s/?
Fricatives
What is the difference between /d/ and /n/?
One is a plosive and one is nasal
What type of sound is /j/?
Approximant
