File 2 Vocab Flashcards
(20 cards)
Palatography
Experimental method that shows the contact between the tongue and the roof of the mouth.
Sound Spectrograph
Equipment that generates spectrograms from speech input.
Spectrogram
A three-dimensional representation of sound in which the vertical axis represents frequency, the horizontal axis represents time, and the darkness of shading represents amplitude.
Supersegmental
A phonetic characteristic of speech sounds, such as length, intonation, tone, or stress, that “rides on top of” segmental features.
Impressionistic Phonetic Transcription
Method of writing down speech sounds with the intent of capturing how they are pronounced.
Articulation
The motion or positioning of some part of the vocal tract (often, but not always, a muscular part such as the tongue or lips) with respect to some other surface of the vocal tract in the production of a speech sound.
Affricate
Sound produced by complete obstruction of the airflow followed by a slight release of the obstruction, allowing frication.
Frication
A turbulent, hissing mouth noise that is produced by forming a nearly complete obstruction of the vocal tract.
Glottis
The space between the vocal folds.
Glide
Sound produced with a constriction in the vocal tract that is only slightly more constricted than that of vowels.
Intonation
Commonly refers to the pattern of pitch movements across a stretch of speech such as a sentence.
Dipthong
A complex vowel, composed of a sequence of two different configurations of the vocal organs.
Formant
Resonant frequency that amplifies some groups of harmonics above others.
Liquid
Consonant sound produced by an obstruction of airflow that is less narrow than that of glides.
Nasal
Sound produced by making a complete obstruction of the airflow in the oral cavity and lowering the velum to allow air to pass through the nasal cavity, unlike oral stops.
Periodic Wave
Sound wave that represents itself at regular intervals.
Retroflex
Sound produced by curling the tip of the tongue back behind the alveolar ridge usually to the top of the mouth.
Handshape
The configuration of the hands and fingers in a sign; one of the parameters of visual-gestural languages.
Fundamental Frequency
The rate at which the vocal folds vibrate during voicing.
Voice Bar
The dark band at the bottom of a spectrogram that indicates the sound is voiced.
