Ling ch 2

Question 1

co-articulation

Answer 1

the adjustment of articulation of a segment due to the influence of a neighboring sounds

Question 2

monophthongs

Answer 2

simple vowels, composed of a single configuration of the vocal tract

Question 3

suprasegmentals

Answer 3

a phonetic characteristic of speech sounds, such as length,intonation,tone,or stress that rides on top of segment features. Must usualy be identified by comparison to the same feature on other sounds or strings of sounds

Question 4

constants

Answer 4

speech sound produced with a constriction somewhere in the vocal tract that impedes air flow

Question 5

vowels

Answer 5

speech sound produced with at most only a slight narrowing somewhere in the vocal tract, allowing air to flow freely through the oral cavity

Question 6

monosyllabic

Answer 6

consisting of only one syllable

Question 7

nucleus

Answer 7

the core element of a syllable,carrying stress,length, and pitch tone. It usually consists of a vowel or a syllabic constant

Question 8

coda

Answer 8

in a syllable any consonant that occur in the rhyme after the nucleus

Question 9

phonetics

Answer 9

the study of the minimal units of language the sounds of the spoken language

Question 10

articulatory phonetics

Answer 10

subfield of phonetics concerned with the production of speech sounds

Question 11

acoustic phonetics

Answer 11

subfield of phonetics that is concerned with the physical characteristics of the sounds of speech

Question 12

auditory phonetics

Answer 12

subfield of phonetics concerned with the perception of speech sounds

Question 13

sound spectograph

Answer 13

equipment that generates spectrograms from speech input

Question 14

running speech

Answer 14

the usual form of spoken language, with all the words and phrases run together, without pauses in between them. Sometimes called continuous speech

Question 15

productivity

Answer 15

refers to a languages capacity for novel messages to be built up out of discrete units

Question 16

articulation

Answer 16

the motion or positioning of some part of the vocal tract (often, 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.

Question 17

articulatory description

Answer 17

for an auditory vocal language, the description of the motion or positioning of the parts of the vocal tract that are responsible for the production of a speech sound

Question 18

glottis

Answer 18

the space between the vocal folds

Question 19

displacement

Answer 19

ability of a language to communicate about things, actions, and ideas that are not present in space or time while speakers are communicating

Question 20

place of articulation

Answer 20

describing where in the vocal tract the constriction is made

Question 21

bilabial

Answer 21

constants made by bringing both lips close together

Question 22

labiodental

Answer 22

constants are made with the lower lip against the upper front teeth

Question 23

interdentals

Answer 23

are made with the tip of the tongue protruding between the front teeth

Question 24

alveolar

Answer 24

sounds are made wit the tongue tip at or near the front of the upper alveolar

Question 25

post alveolart

Answer 25

sounds are made a bit farther back

Question 26

palatal

Answer 26

sounds are made with the body of the tongue near the center of the hard portion of the roof of the mouth

Question 27

velum

Answer 27

soft palte