Week 1

Question 1

What are the english vowels?

Answer 1

A, E, I, O, U

Question 2

What is a many to one relationship?

Answer 2

Many different letters for the same sound (do, loop, two, through)

Question 3

What is a one to many relationship?

Answer 3

Same letter can represent many sounds (game, dad, father, call, sofa)

Question 4

What is the correspondence between symbols (letters) and sounds?

Answer 4

NOT one-to-one

Question 5

When can two letters equal one sound?

Answer 5

Choose, tough, through, deal, phone

Question 6

When can one letter make two sounds?

Answer 6

Exit, axe

Question 7

When can one letter make no sound?

Answer 7

soften, comb, make, pneumonia, gnat

Question 8

Internal Phonetic Association

Answer 8

• Founded in France in 1886 by a group of Language Teachers

- Developed the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)

Question 9

What is the International Phonetic Alphabet?

Answer 9

• Maps one sound to one symbol and vice versa
• Can represent all of the speech sounds of languages of the world and possible sounds in disordered speech
• Allows any practiced reader to produce native-sounding speech in any language

Question 10

How are the IPA Charts organized?

Answer 10

-The IPA charts (consonant and vowel) are organized based on how we make/produce/articulate sounds with our mouthes.

Question 11

What 3 systems contribute to the production of speech?

Answer 11

1. Respiratory System
2. Phonatory System (Laryngeal System)
   - Larynx, Glottis, Vocal Folds
3. Articulatory System (Supra-laryngeal System)
   - Vocal tract, Articulators, and Supralaryngeal Area

Question 12

What is the Larynx?

Answer 12

Houses the vocal folds

Question 13

What are Vocal Folds?

Answer 13

Elastic folds of tissue

Question 14

What is the Glottis?

Answer 14

Space between the vocal folds

Question 15

Vocal folds can be ___________ or ___________

Answer 15

Abducted or adducted

Question 16

When vocal folds vibrate it is called?

Answer 16

Phonation or Voicing

Question 17

What is the rate of vocal fold vibration?

Answer 17

Fundamental frequency (F0)

Question 18

Fundamental Frequency

Answer 18

The rate changes as we speak due to lexical stress and intonation.

Question 19

What are the 3 cavities of the Spuralaryngral Vocal Tract?

Answer 19

1. Pharynx
2. Oral Cavity
3. Nasal Cavity

Question 20

What does articulation mean?

Answer 20

“joining together”

Question 21

Do passive articulators move or stay still?

Answer 21

Stay still, do not move

Question 22

Where do active articulators move to?

Answer 22

Move towards passive articulators

Question 23

Why do sounds differ?

Answer 23

Depends on which articulators are brought together and how closely they approximate to each other

Question 24

What are lingual sounds?

Answer 24

Sounds made with the tongue

Question 25

Where is bilabial articulation?

Answer 25

Upper and lower lip

Question 26

Where is labiodental articulation?

Answer 26

Lower lip and upper teeth

Question 27

Where is dental/interdental articulation?

Answer 27

Tongue tip and upper front teeth

Question 28

Where is alveolar articulation?

Answer 28

Tongue tip or blade and alveolar ridge

Question 29

Where is postalveolar articulation?

Answer 29

Tongue blade and behind alveolar ridge/ frontal palatal region

Question 30

Where is palatal articulation?

Answer 30

Tongue front/center and hard palate

Question 31

Where is velar articulation?

Answer 31

Back of tongue and Velum

Question 32

Where is glottal articulation?

Answer 32

Vocal folds

Question 33

What is Nasals (or nasal stops)?

Answer 33

Complete closure of the articulators in the oral cavity, but the nasal cavity is open, allowing air to escape through the nose.

Question 34

Where can the soft palate/velum move?

Answer 34

Can be moved up or down

Question 35

When the soft palate/velum is moved up what happens?

Answer 35

Air is blocked from entering the nasal cavity

Question 36

When the soft palate/velum is moved down what happens?

Answer 36

Air may pass through the nasal cavity.

Question 37

What happens in nasal stops?

Answer 37

Air passes through the nose but does not pass through the mouth

Question 38

What’s a speaking style that does not use vocal fold vibration?

Answer 38

Whispering