Articulatory Phonetics

Question 1

What is the difference between consonants and vowels

Answer 1

Consonants involve the constriction of air flow vowels do not

Question 2

What are the three ways to describe consonants

Answer 2

Voicing
Place of articulation
Manner of articulation

Question 3

What is voicing

Answer 3

What the vocal folds are doing

Question 4

What are voiced sounds

Answer 4

When vibrations pass through vocal folds

Question 5

What are voiceless sounds

Answer 5

When air passes through open vocal folds

Question 6

What is the place of articulation

Answer 6

Where the constriction of air flow takes place

Question 7

What is the manner of articulation

Answer 7

How is the airflow constricted

Question 8

What is bilabial sound

Answer 8

Produced by both lips

Question 9

What produces a labiodental sound

Answer 9

Upper teeth and lower lip

Question 10

What produces a interdental sound

Answer 10

Tongue in between Upper and lower teeth

Question 11

What produces an alveolar sound

Answer 11

Tongue at or near the ridge behind the upper front teeth

Question 12

What produces a palatal sound

Answer 12

Front hard palate or roof of the mouth

Question 13

What produces a velar sound

Answer 13

Produced at velum or soft palate

Question 14

What produces glotal sound

Answer 14

At glottis or the space between vocal folds

Question 15

How is the airflow constricted for a plosive sound

Answer 15

Complete constriction of air flow followed by a release of air

Question 16

How is the airflow constricted when a fricative sound is produced

Answer 16

When the tongue approaches but does not make contact with the place of articulation causing a bottleneck of airflow

Question 17

How is the airflow constricted when affricative sound is produced

Answer 17

Sequence of plosive and fricative

Question 18

How is the air constricted when a nasal sound is produced

Answer 18

Produce when nasal cavity is lowerred
Air through the nasal cavity

Question 19

How is air constricted when a liquid sound is produced

Answer 19

Air can pass on one or both sides of the tongue

Question 20

How is the air constricted when an approximate sound is produced

Answer 20

Free airflow ‘semi-vowels’

Question 21

How is air constricted when a tap sound is produced

Answer 21

Rapid flick of the tongue at the alveolar ridge

Question 22

In what order should you describe consonants

Answer 22

Voicing -> place of articulation -> manner of articulation

Question 23

What are the two types of vowels

Answer 23

Monophthongs Diphthongs

Question 24

What is a monophthong

Answer 24

One vowel

Question 25

What is a diphthong

Answer 25

Two vowels

Question 26

What are the three ways to describe vowels

Answer 26

Height backness roundness

Question 27

What is the height of a vowel

Answer 27

How high or low a tongue is

Question 28

What are the three ways to describe vowel height

Answer 28

Tongue high
Tongue mid
Tongue low

Question 29

What is the backness of vowels

Answer 29

How far front or back the tongue is

Question 30

What are the three ways to describe vowel backness

Answer 30

Tongue forward
Tongue central
Tongue backward

Question 31

What is the roundness of vowels

Answer 31

Are the lips rounded when producing thé vowel

Question 32

What are the two ways to describe the roundness of vowels

Answer 32

Rounded vowel
Unrounded vowel

Question 33

In what order should you describe vowels

Answer 33

Height -> backness -> roundness

Question 34

What is a long vowel

Answer 34

Elongated sound

Question 35

What is a short vowel

Answer 35

Short vowel sounds