Vowels
Consonants
Potpourri
Terminology
100

This type of vowel has an unchanging quality.

What is a monophthong?

100

This consonant is made when air is obstructed and then suddenly released.

What is a stop or plosive?

100

This anatomical structure creates harmonics.

What is the larynx?
100

This is the power source for speech.

What is respiration or the lungs?

200

This type of vowel does change in quality.

What is a diphthong?
200

This consonant is created when airflow is blocked in the mouth and flows through the nasal cavity.

What is a nasal?

200

This group of anatomical structures creats formants.

What is the vocal tract?

200

This is the term used to say that the vocal folds are vibrating or creating a voiced sound.

What is phonation?

300

When the the vocal tract is lengthened, this happens to the frequency of the formants.

What is lowered?

300

This is the name of the place when a consonant is made using the teeth and the lips.

What is labiodental?

300

This anatomical structure/space determines the first formant frequency.

What is the pharynx?

300

This term describes the movement of structures to produce sounds.

What is articulation?

400

All vowels in American English are this (Hint: vibrations).

What is voiced?

400

This consonant is created when articulators are close together, but there is no frication and the tongue moves from one point in the oral cavity to another.

What is a glide?

400

This anatomical structure/space determines the second formant frequency.

What is the oral cavity?

400

This term is used to the describe the maximal vibration of an object.

What is resonance?

500

These four things are used to classify vowels.

What is tongue height, tongue tension, tongue position, and lip position?

500

Consonants are classified using these three methods.

What is place, manner, and voicing?
500

This spectrogram is showing what speech sound? 

What is a fricative?

500

This happens when two articulators move at the same time for different phonemes and they overlap.

What is coarticulation?

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