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Vowel Production Flashcards

1
Q

Vowels are

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Voiced

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2
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With vowels, articulators

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Do not constrict in oral cavity

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3
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With vowels, sound

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Can be sustained

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4
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Vowels function as

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Nucleus of syllable

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5
Q

What is a vowel?

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Syllabic sounds made with free passage of air down the mid-line of the vocal tract, usually with a convex tongue shape and without friction

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6
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Vowels are defined by the

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Physiological characteristic of their having no obstruction in the vocal tract and by their function within a phonological defined syllable

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7
Q

What are monothongs?

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Constant, unchanging sound quality

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8
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What are diphthongs?

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Gradually changing articulation

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9
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Vowels are labelled in terms of?

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Tongue blackness, tongue height and they are always voiced

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10
Q

What are the three types of tongue backness?

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Front
Central
Back

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11
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What are the three tongue heights?

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High
Mid
Low

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12
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Front- back is the same as

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Palatal-velar

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13
Q

With vowels the lips are either?

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Rounded or unrounded

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14
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What is the cardinal vowel system?

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A system of fixed auditory reference points to which any vowel sound can be related to in a principle manner

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15
Q

In the CVS, where vowels appear in pair the one on the right

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Represents a rounded vowel

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16
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What are the three types of vowels?

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Primary(8)
Secondary
Spare

17
Q

The primary Cardinal vowels have

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Fixed/unvarying ‘auditory’ quality

18
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Physiologically, front vowels are

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Equidistant, back vowels are not (tongue is identical for 6 and 7) and further from 8 than they are from five

19
Q

What is the first anchor point in the CVS?

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ee sound

20
Q

Ee sound is?

A

Highest front vowel
Tongue as high and forward as possible
Lips spread

21
Q

What is the second anchor point in the CVS?

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Aaaa sound as in Palm

22
Q

Aaa sound as in Palm is?

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Most open back vowel
Tongue as low and back as possible
Lips spread

23
Q

There are three more reference points at the front of the vowel space:

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Auditorily equidistant: ay as in face,

24
Q

Three more reference points at the back of the vowel space

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Auditorily equidistant
Caught
Goat
Pool

25
Q

Primary Cardinal vowels are numbered

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1-8 a is number CV4

26
Q

Secondary Cardinal vowels

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Are fixed and unvarying quality. Not all peripheral

27
Q

CV 9-16 same as 1-8 but

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Opposite lip positions- rounding vs unrounding

28
Q

What is a spare/floating vowel?

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Schwa

Very common vowel ‘butter’

29
Q

Most accents differ due to?

A

Vowel production

30
Q

Cardinal vowel criticisms

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Stylised chart
Cannot be learn from written descriptions- Daniel Jones
Reference points-physiologically defined, others auditorily(equidistant?)
Tongue height or tongue constriction?

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