Phonetics

Question 1

What are the 7 articulators?

Answer 1

1-Alveolar ridge
2-Velum
3-Uvula 
4-Epiglottis
5-Lips
6-Teeth
7-Tongue

Question 2

what are the four speech organs?

Answer 2

1-Lungs
2-Mouth
3-Throat
4-Nose

Question 3

Phonology?

Answer 3

The use of speech sounds in language

Question 4

Phonetics?

Answer 4

The study of human speech sounds

Question 5

Acoustic phonetics?

Answer 5

The physical manifestation of speech waves

Question 6

Auditory phonetics?

Answer 6

How we perceive speech sounds

Question 7

The vocal tract is made up of? (3)

Answer 7

Larynx, mouth and nose.

Question 8

What is initiation?

Answer 8

When air passes from the lungs, upwards and outwards through the vocal tract

Question 9

What egressive pulmonic airflow?

Answer 9

Air flowing outwards from the lungs

Question 10

Ingressive air?

Answer 10

Speaking whilst inhaling in

Question 11

What is phonation?

Answer 11

When air is converted into vibrations

Question 12

Where is air converted into vibrations?

Answer 12

larynx

Question 13

Where does phonation take place?

Answer 13

larynx

Question 14

What is articulation?

Answer 14

Air is manipulated to make specific sound

Question 15

Where is articulation?

Answer 15

The upper vocal tract.

Question 16

6 parts of the tongue?

Answer 16

Blade
front
tip
back
dorsum
root

Question 17

What are plosives?

Answer 17

They involve a small ‘explosion’ of air and its released from the articulators

Question 18

What are fricatives?

Answer 18

They involve high frequency energy, like friction between articulators

Question 19

Approximants?

Answer 19

Open approximation, wide degree of stricture, can be maintained

Question 20

Nasal?

Answer 20

Same close-hold-release gesture as plosives, but the velum is lowered and airflows through the nasal passage.

Question 21

plosive examples?

Answer 21

p
d
b

Question 22

fricative examples?

Answer 22

z

s

Question 23

approximates examples?

Answer 23

w
l
y

Question 24

nasal examples?

Answer 24

aba

Question 25

What is voicing?

Answer 25

The vocal folds vibrate to create voicing

Question 26

Sounds that cause the vocal folds to vibrate are…?

Answer 26

voiced

Question 27

Sounds that don’t cause the vocal folds to vibrate are…?

Answer 27

voiceless

Question 28

What does manner of articulation relate to?

Answer 28

The stricture of articulators during consonant production

Question 29

What is stricture?

Answer 29

Degree of closure in the vocal tract.