In the Beginning
The study of human speech sounds.
Phonetics
Vibration of the vocal cords that creates sound
Voicing
The relative pitch that affects the implied meaning of a sentence or phrase.
Intonation
A puff of air accompanying the release of a stop.
Aspiration
The type of affricate where the stop and fricative are produced in the same or nearly the same point of articulation.
Homorganic
Individual speech sounds.
Phones
The manner of articulation imposes the greatest degree of impedance on the air stream.
Stop
This tone system only uses level tones, no pitch glides; changes in pitch occur between syllables.
Registered Tone Systems
Stops are also known as this.
Plosive
The type of affricate where the stop and the fricative do not share the same point of articulation.
Heterorganic
Mucous membranes that vibrate when the air stream passes over.
Vocal Cords
The manner of articulation allows air to pass through the nasal cavity.
Nasals
A word or group of words in which the tone does not change
Frame
Stops occurring at the glottis; vocal cords press tightly together preventing air from passing through.
Glottal Stop
When two consonants occur together in a sequence with no intervening vowels.
Consonant Cluster
Movable parts of the speech mechanism that are raised to meet the points of articulation.
Articulators
The manner of articulation allows air to pass around the sides of the tongue rather than over the top of the tongue.
Laterals
This tone system contains level tones and glided tones
The point in time when the vocal cords begin to vibrate in relation to the time of the release of the articulators forming the consonant.
Voice Onset Time
When distinguishing between the tongue tip and tongue blade, this term refers to blade articulation.
Laminal
Studying how the modification of the air stream produces different phones.
Articulatory Phonetics
A pair of sounds, a stop and a fricative, articulated together in a close sequence.
Affricate
This type of pitch is not absolute, but is distinguished by context.
Linguistic Pitch
The two key features of a stop when drawn on a facial diagram.
Articulator must be shown touching the point of articulation and the velic must be closed.
This is generally known as the soft palate.
Velar or velum.