Vocabulary Flashcards
Affricates
a phoneme which combines a plosive with an immediately following fricative or spirant sharing the same place of articulation
Fricative
denoting a type of consonant made by the friction of breath in a narrowing UPenn’s, producing a turbulent air flow
Phonetics
the Study and classification of speech sounds
Approximants
Speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow.
Articulatory phonetics
The field of articulatory phonetics is a subfield of genetics that studies articulation and ways that humans produce speech.
Acoustic Phonetics
the study of the acoustic characteristics of speech, including an analysis and description of speech in terms of its physical properties, such as frequency, intensity, and duration.
Auditory phonetics
the branch of phonetics concerned with the hearing of speech sounds and with speech perception.
Monophthong
a vowel that has a single perceived auditory quality.
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin s
Phonetic transcription
Phonetic transcription is the visual representation of speech sounds (or phones) by means of symbols.
Received Pronunciation (RP)
the standard form of British English pronunciation, based on educated speech in southern England.
General American
(in nontechnical use) the variety of English spoken in the greater part of the US, particularly with reference to the lack of regional characteristics.
Pulmonic egressive airstream mechanism
the air is pushed out of the lungs by the ribs and diaphragm.
Pulmonic ingressive
describes ingressive sounds in which the airstream is created by the lungs.
Articulators
all parts of the vocal apparatus which are involved in speech production.
Vocal tract
entire passage above the larynx.
Bilabial
(of a speech sound) formed by closure or near closure of the lips, as in p, b, m, w.
Alveolar
the place of articulation of [d] is referred to.
Fricatives
a consonant characterized by frictional passage of the expired breath through a narrowing at some point in the vocal tract.
Nasals
speech sound in which the airstream passes through the nose as a result of the lowering of the soft palate (velum) at the back of the mouth.
