Definitions

Question 1

Clear articulation

Answer 1

Distinct, intelligible, and easy to understand. Involves the lips,lips, jaw, tongue, and velum

Question 2

Appropriate loudness

Answer 2

Easily heard, not overbearing, appropriate for the environment. Includes intensity (sound level), volume, and projection.

Question 3

Expressiveness

Answer 3

Animated, well pitched, uses vocal variety, rate of speaking, phrasing, emphasis, contrast

Question 4

Unobtrusive pronunciation

Answer 4

Appropriate to the speaker, to the area in which the speaker lives, and to the speakers audience.

Question 5

Larynx

Answer 5

Principle organ of sound

Question 6

Vocal folds

Answer 6

Flaps of muscle tissue that lengthen, shorten, tense, or relax. They vibrate to create sound.

Question 7

Resonance

Answer 7

Fundamental that tells us the pitch of a tone. Process. The quality of the voice that is determined by the balance of sound vibration in the oral, nasal, and pharyngeal cavities during speech.

Question 8

Resonator

Answer 8

Helps vibrations as a soundboard to reflect and renovate the original sound

Question 9

Loudness

Answer 9

The attributes of a sound that determines the magnitude of the auditory sensation produced

Question 10

Articulation

Answer 10

The process by which individuals speech sounds are produced by the tongue, lips, teeth, and soft palate, modifying the outgoing breath stream

Question 11

Articulators

Answer 11

Provide movement to form and sculpt speech sounds

Question 12

Vocal monotony

Answer 12

Speaking with without varying tone or pitch

Question 13

Pitch

Answer 13

Highness or lowness of tone or sound

Question 14

Range

Answer 14

The area of variation between the upper and lower limits

Question 15

Intonation

Answer 15

Overall pattern of pitch changes in phrases and sentences

Question 16

Key

Answer 16

The general pitch level – ranging anywhere from high to low – that is used at any given moment in talking or reading

Question 17

Inflection

Answer 17

Changing pitch within a single, uninterrupted sound

Question 18

Steps

Answer 18

A pitch change between words or syllables. Voice leaps from one pitch to another, either up or down. Only one tone is used per word.

Question 19

Stress

Answer 19

Degree of prominence of a syllable within a word

Question 20

Emphasis

Answer 20

Degree of prominence given to a phrase or thought grouping

Question 21

Rate

Answer 21

The speed at which a person speaks, the length or duration of sounds, and the length and number of pauses.

Question 22

Duration

Answer 22

Length or amount of sound

Question 23

Phrase

Answer 23

A group of related words expressing a thought

Question 24

Pause

Answer 24

Rest stop

Question 25

Operative words

Answer 25

Most important words in a phrase

Question 26

Voice and diction

Answer 26

How you talk