Chapter Files 2

Question 1

Phonetics

Answer 1

study of the minimal units that make up language .

Question 2

articulatory phonetics

Answer 2

study of production of speech sounds

Question 3

acoustic phonetics

Answer 3

study of transmission/physical properties of speech sounds

Question 4

auditory phonetics

Answer 4

study of perception of speech sounds

Question 5

x-ray photography/cinematography

Answer 5

(dangerous) way to investigate sound production

Question 6

point-tracking device

Answer 6

X-ray microbeam and electromagnetic articulograph are two kinds of this

Question 7

palatography

Answer 7

method used to show contact between tongue and roof of mouth

Question 8

sound spectrograph

Answer 8

3-dimensional representation of sound

Question 9

MRI and CT

Answer 9

auditory phonetics tools

Question 10

impressionistic phonetic transcription

Answer 10

method of accurately writing down speech sounds

Question 11

phone

Answer 11

discrete unit of the speech stream

Question 12

suprasegmental

Answer 12

property like stress, tone and intonation, which ride on top of a segment

Question 13

onset

Answer 13

initial consonant sound in a syllable

Question 14

nucleus

Answer 14

central vocalic (vowel) part of the rhyme
carries suprasegmental information

Question 15

coda

Answer 15

final consonant sounds in a syllable

Question 16

rhyme

Answer 16

continuous, everyday sentences

not as perfect as our phonetic representation

Question 17

voice bar

Answer 17

a nasal or liquid which acts like a vowel, taking the nuclear position in a syllable

Question 18

static palatography

Answer 18

method which involves painting the tongue to see where it makes contact with teeth

Question 19

dynamic palatography

Answer 19

method which allows a series of tongue-teeth contacts to be recorded

Question 20

artificial hard palate

Answer 20

similar to a retainer

records tongue movement