Vo-cab

Question 1

[æ]

Answer 1

low front unrounded lax

Ex: “sat”, “pal”, “mass”, “tap”

Question 2

What sound does the IPA symbol [u] represent?

Answer 2

Boot/two

Question 3

monophthongs

Answer 3

sound of a single vowel– a, e

Question 4

Diphthongs

Answer 4

Two vowels together in a word that produce a single glided sound

Question 5

Phonetics

Answer 5

study of the production and perception of speech sounds

Question 6

Glottal

Answer 6

Sounds produced at the larynx Vocal folds /h/

Question 7

Velar

Answer 7

Involves the back of the tongue and the soft palate (k,g, n)

Question 8

Palatal

Answer 8

tongue front-hard palate (j)

Question 9

Palato-alveolar

Answer 9

-tongue blade is brought up to the back of the alveolar ridge and hard palate

/ʃ/ /ʒ//ʧ/ /ʤ/

Question 10

Alveolar

Answer 10

tongue tip/blade-alveolar ridge (t d s z n l r)

Question 11

Labio-dental

Answer 11

using lips and teeth.

EX: v, f

Question 12

Bilabial

Answer 12

sounds using 2 lips– b, p, m, w

Question 13

Approximant

Answer 13

air flow is narrowed but not enough to cause frication; the approximants include two subtypes: liquids - (l) (r) and glides - (w) (y)

Question 14

Nasal

Answer 14

M,n,

Question 15

Affricate

Answer 15

phoneme begins like a stop and ends like a fricative (ch-chair & j-juice)

Question 16

fricative

Answer 16

severe constriction of the articulators through which the air then passes (f,v,s,h,z ,0)

Question 17

plosive

Answer 17

a consonant sound that cannot be sustained

Question 18

consonants

Answer 18

the letters b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k ,l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w ,x, y, z.

Question 19

Vocal tract

Answer 19

the airway above the larynx used for the production of speech- includes the oral and nasal tracts

Question 20

International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)

Answer 20

a system for transcribing the sounds of speech that attempts to represent each sound of human speech with a single symbol