Week 2

Question 1

What is a vowel?

Answer 1

-The core of a syllable

Question 2

A _________ is produced with an open, unobstructed oral cavity; air passes freely through the vocal tract.

Answer 2

Vowel

Question 3

Where is the sound source of vowels?

Answer 3

Glottis

Question 4

What are the vocal folds doing when producing a vowel?

Answer 4

Vibrating

Question 5

Most famous phonetician

Answer 5

Peter Ladefoged

Question 6

when there is no distinct boundaries between one vowel and another

Answer 6

Vowel Articulation

Question 7

1. Height
2. Backness
3. Rounding
4. Tense/Lax

Answer 7

4 Vowel Dimensions

Question 8

Where is the tongue in vowel production?

Answer 8

1. Height

2. Backness

Question 9

Rounded/unrounded

Answer 9

What are the lips doing?

Question 10

Refers to how high the tongue is in the oral cavity.

Answer 10

Height

Question 11

Refers to where the main constriction is.

Answer 11

Backness

Question 12

Where is constriction in the front vowels?

Answer 12

Near the Palate

Question 13

Where is constriction in the back vowels?

Answer 13

Near the velum/soft palate

Question 14

How is height defined?

Answer 14

• Plus or minus high

- Plus or minus low

Question 15

How is backness defined?

Answer 15

Plus or minus back

Question 16

All front vowels are ___________.

Answer 16

Round

Question 17

What is the vowel sounding like?

Answer 17

Vowel quality

Question 18

Can occur in both open and closed syllables.

Answer 18

Tense Vowels

Question 19

no consonant at the end

Answer 19

Open Syllables

Question 20

can only occur in closed syllables

Answer 20

Lax Vowels

Question 21

End in a consonant

Answer 21

Closed Syllables

Question 22

• High front unrounded tense vowel
• Produced by tongue body raised near the hard palate
• Considered one of the point vowels

Answer 22

/i/ (eeeeeee)

Question 23

• Corner vowel

- Occupies a corner of the vowel quadrilateral

Answer 23

Point Vowel

Question 24

What sound does /i/ make?

Answer 24

(eeeeeee)

Question 25

- High front unrounded lax vowel - Produced by tongue body slightly lower than /i/ - Referred to as small cap I

Answer 25

/I/ (ihhh)

Question 26

What sound does I make?

Answer 26

(ihhhhhh)

Question 27

- Mid front unrounded tense vowel - Tongue body lower than for [i] and [I] - Other possible transcriptions [e], [ei], [ej]

Answer 27

[e] (aaaa)

Question 28

When stressed which vowel of [e] do we use?

Answer 28

[ei]

Question 29

When unstressed which vowel of [e] do we use?

Answer 29

[e]

Question 30

- Mid front unrounded lax vowel - Tongue body slightly lower than for [e] - Referred to as epsilon - Generally transcribed before "r" in worlds like "hair" "air"

Answer 30

[ɛ] (ehhhhhhh)

Question 31

What sound does [e] make?

Answer 31

(aaaaaa)

Question 32

What sound does [ɛ} make?

Answer 32

(eeeehhhh)

Question 33

- Low front unrounded lax vowel - One of the point vowels - Referred to as ash - Before velar nasal "ng" some dialects have considerable raising to something closer to [e] - In some dialects this vowel is used before "r" when it is intervocalic as in "Harry," "Marry"

Answer 33

[æ]

Question 34

- High back rounded tense vowel - One of the point vowels - Often occurs in combination with the glide /j/, making a sound combination "you" as in "beauty" and "cute"

Answer 34

[u] (ooooo)

Question 35

What sound does [æ] make?

Answer 35

(a)

Question 36

What sound does [u] make?

Answer 36

(oooooo)

Question 37

- High back rounded lax vowel - Tongue slightly lower than for (u) - Referred to as upsilon

Answer 37

[ʊ] (uhhhhh)

Question 38

- (High)-mid back rounded tense vowel | - Tongue body lower than for [u] and [ʊ]

Answer 38

[o], [oʊ] (ohh)

Question 39

What sound does [ʊ] make?

Answer 39

(uhhhhh)

Question 40

- Common in transcription to use open-o before r | - Varies by dialect

Answer 40

[ɔ] (aww)

Question 41

What sound does [ɔ] make?

Answer 41

(awww)

Question 42

- Low back unrounded vowel | - One of the point vowels

Answer 42

[a] (ahh)

Question 43

What sound does [a] make?

Answer 43

(ahhhh)

Question 44

1. Front 2. Mid 3. Low

Answer 44

Height

Question 45

1. Front | 2. Back

Answer 45

Backness

Question 46

Height for front vowels

Answer 46

1. [i] 2. [I] 3. [ɛ] 4. [æ]

Question 47

Height for back vowels

Answer 47

1. [u] 2. [ʊ] 3. [a]