Speech 110 Flashcards
What are monopthong?
Pure vowel phoneme consisting of one distinct articulatory element.
(Most English vowels are these)
What are diphthong?
Diphthongs are one phoneme consisting of two vowels element.
- the first vowel are onglide, the second, off glide.
- -has 2 distinct articulatory position.
TONGUE
- -primary articulatory of vowel
- -attached to mandible,so jaw position is linked to vowel production
- -as tongue change position, size and shape of pharynx also change
- -if tongue produce a constriction in vocal tract, it’s NOT vowel, but consonant phoneme
VOWEL PRODUCTIONS
- -Each vowel has a unique articulatory position by a combinations of tongue height, tongue advancement and lips rounding.
- -Each change in position change the resonance in the vocal tract. –The change of resonanance give each vowel it unique quality that allow them to be recognize by the listeners
What are vowels?
Vowels are phoneme produced without any appreciable blockage of airflow in the vocal tract
–serves as a syllable nucleus
VOWEL CLASSIFICATIONS
- Tongue Height
- Tongue advancement
- lips rounding
- tense or lax
Tongue Height
How high or low in oral cavity in production
Tongue advancement
How far front or back during production
Lip rounding
–Vowels can be round or unrounded in production
TENSE/LAX
–vowel can be tense or lax
–tense are longer in duration and require more muscleeffort
SONORANT CONSONANTS/RESONANCES CONSONANTS
- -class of sound produce with resonance throughout entire vocal tract (eg. Nasal, liquid, glides)
- -they produce with little constriction in the vocal tract and therefore produce without much turburlance in the airstream coming from the larynx
OBSTRUENT
–class of sound, included stop, fricative, affricative, constricted in the oral cavity that result in turbulent coming from larynx
8 cognate
S,z,p,b,k,g,v,f
COGONATE
Phonemes that differ only in voicing
VOICING
Whether vocal fold vibrate during production
