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Phonetics Flashcards

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What is the three part naming system for consonants?

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Voicing, Place, Manner

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What is the three part naming system for vowels?

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Vertical tongue position, Horizontal tongue position, Lip position

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How can the vertical tongue position be described?

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Low/high, open/close

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How can the horizontal tongue position be described?

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front/back, advanced/retracted

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How can the lip position be described?

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round/unrounded

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Name 6 types of ‘manners’ of articulation?

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Plosive, Nasal, Fricative, Affricate, Approximant, Lateral Approximant

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Name three features of a Nasal consonant that differs from a plosive?

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No increase in air pressure, no ‘explosion’, instead- continuous sound

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In the production of every sound there are two …

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articulators - passive and active

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The affricates in English are…

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‘ch’ (choke) ‘j’ (joke)

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