Phonetics

Question 1

Phonetics

Answer 1

• The physical properties of speech sounds
• Different speech set for each languages

Question 2

Notes or segments

Answer 2

individual speech sounds

Question 3

Acoustic Phonetics

Answer 3

the study of the acoustic properties of speech sounds

Question 4

Auditory phonetics

Answer 4

The study of the perception of speech sounds

Question 5

Articulatory phonetics

Answer 5

how the vocal organs produce speech sounds

Question 6

The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)

Answer 6

• First developed in 1886, last revised 2015
• A consistent and universal notation for representing the speech sounds of the world’s languages
• Phonetic transcription uses the IPA
  and disregards letters and spelling

Question 7

Articular phonetics: speech organs

Answer 7

Larynx(voicebox), pharynx, supralaryngeal vocal tract, oral cavity, nasal cavity, trachea

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Consonants: Places of articulation

Answer 8

• Produced with narrow or complete obstruction in vocal tract
• voice or voiceless(may feel vibrations might not)
• less sonorous
• generally not syllabic(don’t form the syllables in a word)
• Major articular for constant: lips, tongue tip, tongue body, larynx

Question 9

Labial Sounds

Answer 9

involving the lips

Question 10

Bilabial

Answer 10

both lips (p, b, m sounds)

Question 11

Labio dental

Answer 11

upper teeth and lower lips (f, v sounds)

Question 12

interdental

Answer 12

tongue between teeth or at teeth (th sounds)o^

Question 13

Dental

Answer 13

tongue at back of upper teeth (th sounds)theta 0

Question 14

Alveolar

Answer 14

tongue at our near alveolar ridge (t, d, s, z, l, n, ɹ)

Question 15

Post-alveolar

Answer 15

tongue at or near area behind alveolar ridge (ʃ, ʒ, tʃ, dʒ)

Question 16

Palatal

Answer 16

tongue at palate of mouth (j)

Question 17

Velar

Answer 17

toungue at or near velum(far back) (k, g)

Question 18

Glottal

Answer 18

contraction or not of glottis (sound you make between uh-oh sound)

Question 19

Major sound classes

Answer 19

1. vowels
2. consonants

Question 20

Vowels: place of articulation

Answer 20

• Highly sonorous
• syllable-due to little constriction in vocal tract
• Distinguishable by position of tongue body and lip shape

Question 21

Dipthongs

Answer 21

noticeable change in vowel quality within the syllable

Question 22

Monothongs

Answer 22

no noticeable change in vowel quality

Question 23

Parameters of Vowel Articulation

Answer 23

1. Height (tongue): he(high), Hey(middle) haw(low)
2. Frontness - he(front) cup (central), paw (back)
3. Tenseness - he (tense), hit (lax)
4. Rounding - he (unrounded), who (rounded)

To describe vowel:
Order: height, frontness, tenseness, rounding, vowel
(ex. U: high, back, tense, rounded, vowel)