The Stop Consonants

Question 1

what are Stop Consonants/Plosives?

Answer 1

Produced by completely obstructing the airstream once it enters the oral cavity

Question 2

what is stop production?

Answer 2

marked by a closure in the oral cavity, but also by a closure of velopharyngeal port (oral resonance)

Question 3

Bilabial consonants? (English stop consonants)

Answer 3

p,b

Question 4

alveolar consonants?(English stop consonants)

Answer 4

t,d

Question 5

velar consonants?(English stop consonants)

Answer 5

k,g

Question 6

Intraoral pressure (pressure in oral cavity) ______ due to the impeded airstream that cannot escape the oral cavity

Answer 6

increases

Question 7

Once constriction is released, intramural air pressure is _______ resulting in the expulsion of an audible noise burst forth oral cavity

Answer 7

released

Question 8

Three voiceless stops of English?

Answer 8

p,t,k

Question 9

Three voiced stops?

Answer 9

b,d,g

Question 10

What are the two sound sources of voiced stops?

Answer 10

1. the noise source produced at the construction in the vocal tract 2. the vocal tone produced by the vibrating VF

Question 11

What is an ALVEOLAR TAP?

Answer 11

When pronunciations are somewhere in between /t/ and /d/, by rapid tip of tongue on alveolar ridge

Question 12

What are phonemes that share the same place of articulation?

Answer 12

HOMORGANIC

Question 13

Glottal Stop is voiceless because VF not vibrating: T OR F

Answer 13

True

Question 14

what is n with line in bottom middle?

Answer 14

There is no fully articulated vowel, so /n/ represents entire syllable Ex. kitten [kI?n]

Question 15

What is a fricative?

Answer 15

produced by forcing the breath stream (whether voiced or voiceless) through a narrow channel **articulators don’t close completely