Vocabulary and Terminology Chapter 2

Question 1

Articulatory phonetics

Answer 1

The study of the production of speech sounds

Question 2

Acoustic phonetics

Answer 2

The study of transmission and the physical properties of speech sounds

Question 3

Auditory phonetics

Answer 3

the study of the perception of speech sounds

Question 4

Syllable

Answer 4

A unit of speech

Question 5

Monosyllabic

Answer 5

A word with only one syllable

Question 6

Onset

Answer 6

Consonants that occur before a rhyme within a syllable

Question 7

Rhyme

Answer 7

A vowel and any consonants that come after it

Question 8

Nucleus

Answer 8

The vocalic part of rhyme

Question 9

Coda

Answer 9

the section of a syllable that consists of any final consonants

Question 10

Monophthongs

Answer 10

simple vowels composed of a single configuration of the vocal tract

Question 11

Diphthongs

Answer 11

complex vowels composed of a sequence of two difference configurations

Question 12

Segments

Answer 12

individual sounds of speech

Question 13

Suprasegmental

Answer 13

Features that “ride on top of” other segmental features. (length, intonation, tone and stress)

Question 14

Length

Answer 14

The duration of speech sound

Question 15

Intonation

Answer 15

The pattern of pitch movements across a stretch of speech

Question 16

Pitch accents

Answer 16

a change in fundamental frequency in the middle of an utterance

Question 17

Phrase tone

Answer 17

grouping words into linguistic units called phrases.

Question 18

Tone

Answer 18

The pitch at which the syllables in a word are pronounced

Question 19

Stress

Answer 19

A syllable that is more prominent than an unstressed one.

Question 20

Tone languages

Answer 20

languages that emphasize the pitch at which the syllables in a word are pronounced (tone)