Vocab and Terms Chapter 2

Question 1

palatography

Answer 1

Experimental method that shows the contact between the tongue and the roof of the mouth. Can be static or dynamic.

Question 2

subglottal system

Answer 2

The part of the respiratory system located below the larynx.

Question 3

place of articulation

Answer 3

The place in the vocal tract where the constriction for the production of a consonant is made.

Question 4

labiodental

Answer 4

Sound produced by making contacts between the lower lip and the upper teeth. [f]at & [v}at

Question 5

nasalized vowels

Answer 5

Vowel produced while lowering the velum to allow air to pass through the nasal cavity

Question 6

pharynx

Answer 6

The part of the oral tract above the larynx but behind the uvula. Commonly referred to as the throat.

Question 7

glottalization

Answer 7

The production of a speech sound with creaky voice or with a simultaneous glottal stop.

Question 8

phrase tones

Answer 8

A change in fundamental frequency at the end of a phrase. For example: to indicate a question or statement or to group words into a linguistic unit.

Question 9

rarefaction

Answer 9

Physical phenomenon by which air molecules become less concentrated within a given space. (pressure decreases).

Question 10

fundamental frequency

Answer 10

The rate at which the vocal folds vibrate during voicing. The frequency or repetition of a periodic wave. Closely related to pitch.

Question 11

aspiration

Answer 11

A puff of air that follows the release of a consonant when there is a delay in the onset of voicing. Symbolized by a superscript

Question 12

orientation

Answer 12

The direction that the hand or hands are facing during a sign, may also include whether there is contact between the hands and how that contact takes place. One of the parameters of visual-gestural languages.

Question 13

sound spectrograph

Answer 13

Equipment that generates spectrograms from speech input

Question 14

suprasegmental

Answer 14

A phonetic characteristic of speech sounds, sch as length, intonation, tone or stress that “rides on top pf” segmental features. Must usually be identified by comparison to the same features on other sounds or strings of sounds.

Question 15

velum

Answer 15

Soft part of the rook of the mouth behind the hard palate, also known as the soft palate. When the velum is raised, the passage between the pharynx (throat) and the nasal cavity is closed. When it is lowered, air escapes from the nose, and a nasal sound is produced.

Question 16

dynamic palatography

Answer 16

Experimental method that tracks the contacts and contact patterns between the tongue and the hard palate over time.

Question 17

velarized

Answer 17

A term describing a secondary articulation of a speech sound that is produced with the tongue body moving towards the velum. (the [l} in English word eel [il] is velarized)

Question 18

vowel space

Answer 18

Rang of possible vowel sounds of a language from the high front vowel to the high back vowel. Languages and dialects choose a subset of possibilities in the vowel space but do not exploit all possibilities.

Question 19

palatalized

Answer 19

A term used to describe the articulation of a sound that involves the tongue moving toward the hard palate.

Question 20

formants

Answer 20

Resonant frequency that amplifies some group of harmonics above others, appears as a dark band on the spectrogram.