Vocabulary Chapter 2

Question 1

Palatography

Answer 1

Experimental method that shows the contact between the tongue and the roof of the mouth

Question 2

Impressionistic phonetic transcription

Answer 2

A method of writing own speech sounds with the intent of capturing how they are pronounced

Question 3

Bilabial

Answer 3

consonants that are made by bringing both lips closer together

Question 4

Labiodental

Answer 4

consonants that are made with the lower lip against the upper front teeth

Question 5

Interdentals

Answer 5

Made with the tip of the tongue protruding between the front teeth

Question 6

Alveolar

Answer 6

Sounds that are made with the tongue tip at or near the alveolar ridge.

Question 7

Post-alveolar

Answer 7

Sounds that are made a bit further back; they are made right at the front of the hard palate

Question 8

Palatal

Answer 8

Sounds that are made with the tongue near the center of the hard portion of the roof of the mouth

Question 9

Velar

Answer 9

Consonants that are produced at the soft part of the roof of the mouth behind the hard palate

Question 10

Glottal

Answer 10

Sounds that are produced at the larynx

Question 11

Affricates

Answer 11

Made by briefly stopping the airstream completely and then releasing the articulators slightly so that frication noise is produced

Question 12

Uvula

Answer 12

The very back of the roof of the mouth

Question 13

Airstrream mechanism

Answer 13

Any of the various ways to produce a stream of moving air through the vocal tract for the production of speech sounds

Question 14

Segment

Answer 14

The individual units of the speech stream; they can be further subdivided into consonants and vowels

Question 15

Pitch accents

Answer 15

A change in fundamental frequency used to put prominence on a particular word in an utterance

Question 16

Edge tones

Answer 16

A change in fundamental frequency at the end of a phrase, for example, to indicate a question or a statement

Question 17

Compression

Answer 17

Air molecules are more crowded together than usual

Question 18

Rarefaction

Answer 18

Air molecules are spread farther apart than usual

Question 19

Harmonics

Answer 19

Overtone of the fundamental frequency of the vocal tract; multiple of the fundamental frequency

Question 20

Semivowel

Answer 20

Sound produced with a constriction in the vocal tract that is only slightly more constricted than that of a vowel