Interm 2 Flashcards
(52 cards)
The relative strength of a syllable
Stress
The use of the pitch of the voice to convey meaning
Intonation
The part comprising the mouth
Oral cavity
The part that leads to the nostrils
Nasal cavity
The study of articulators
Articulatory phonetics
A tube which begins just above the larynx
Pharynx
Another name for velum
Soft palate
The sounds we make when the tongue is in contact with the lower side of the soft palate
K, g, velar consonants
Another name for the hard palate?
Roof of the mouth
A consonant made with the tongue close to the hard palate
Palatal sound, j
Between the top front teeth and the hard palate
Alveolar ridge
Sounds made with the tongue touching the alveolar ridge
Alveolar
A very important articulator that can be moved into many different places and shapes.
Tongue
Tongue parts
Tip, blade, front, back, root
At the front of the mouth, immediately behind the lips
Teeth
Sounds made with the tongue touching the teeth
Dental
Sounds in which the lips are in contact with each other
Bilabial, p, b, m, w
Sounds with lip to teeth contact
Labiodental, f, v
Larynx and jaws are sometimes considered articulators
Why is it that jaws aren’t considered articulators in the same way as others?
Because they cannot themselves make contact with other articulators
Vocal apparatus
Sounds in which there is no obstruction to the flow of air as it passes from the larynx to the lips
Vowels
Why is it that we cannot clearly define vowels?
- Some English sounds we think of consonants as /h/ and /w/ don’t really obstruct the flow of air
- Different languages have different ways of dividing sounds into vowels and consonants
The most important distinction between vowels and consonants is not in the way they’re made, but in ….
Their distribution
