Sounds of Language

Question 1

What is phonetics?

Answer 1

The general study of the characteristics of speech sounds

Question 2

What is articulatory phonetics?

Answer 2

the study of how speech sounds are made

Question 3

What is acoustic phonetics?

Answer 3

The study of the physical properties of speech as sound waves in the air

Question 4

What is auditory phonetics?

Answer 4

The study of the perception, via the ear, of speech sounds

Question 5

What sounds are made when the vocal folds are spread apart and the air from the lungs passes between them with no obstruction?

Answer 5

Voiceless sounds

Question 6

What sounds are made when the vocal folds are drawn together and the air from the lungs repeatedly pushes them apart as it passes through?

Answer 6

Voiced sounds

Question 7

What is the location inside the mouth at which the constriction takes place called?

Answer 7

Point of articulation of a sound

Question 8

What kind of consonants are formed using both lips?

Answer 8

Bilabial consonants

Question 9

What kind of consonants are formed using the upper front teeth and the lower lip?

Answer 9

Labiodental consonants

Question 10

What type of consonants are made when the front of the tongue is lifted to the space behind the upper teeth?

Answer 10

Alveolar consonants

Question 11

What type of consonant is formed when the tongue is placed between the teeth?

Answer 11

Interdental consonants

Question 12

What kinds of consonants are made when the tongue is placed at the roof of the mouth?

Answer 12

Palatal consonants

Question 13

What kinds of consonants are produced toward the back of the mouth?

Answer 13

Velar consonants

Question 14

What kinds of consonants are made when there is no manipulation of the air passing out of the mouth?

Answer 14

Glottal consonants

Question 15

What kind of consonants are formed when the tip of the tongue touches the upper teeth?

Answer 15

Dental consonants

Question 16

What is the way sounds are pronounced called?

Answer 16

Manner of articulation

Question 17

What is the manner of articulation of stops?

Answer 17

block airflow, let it go abruptly

Question 18

What is the manner of articulation of fricatives?

Answer 18

almost block airflow, let it escape through a narrow gap

Question 19

What is the manner of articulation of affricates?

Answer 19

combine a brief stop with a fricative

Question 20

What is the manner of articulation of nasals?

Answer 20

lower the velum, let air flow out through nose

Question 21

What is the manner of articulation of liquids?

Answer 21

raise and curl tongue, let airflow escape round the sides

Question 22

What is the manner of articulation of glides?

Answer 22

move tongue to or from a vowel

Question 23

What is the major difference between the way consonants and vowels are formed?

Answer 23

Consonant sounds are mostly articulated via obstruction in the vocal tract, vowel sounds are produced with a relatively free flow of air.

Question 24

What are the two ways to categorize place of articulation of vowels?

Answer 24

High to low and front to back

Question 25

What is a diphthong

Answer 25

A sounds that consists of a combination of two vowel sounds