Please know this vocabulary
Speech sound capable of differentiating morphemes
What is a phoneme?
The medium of sound.
What is air?
Indicating amplitude on a spectrogram.
What is amplitude?
The rate of inhalation and exhalation during speech production.
What is 10/90?
The rules for a minimal pair.
What is having the same amount of sounds and differing by only ONE sound?
Smallest unit of language capable of carrying meaning
What is a morpheme?
One complete evolution of its shape until the point that it is ready to repeat itself. (On waveform)
What is a cycle?
The type of relationship between tongue height and F1.
What is inverse?
The difference between /p/ and /b/.
What is voicing?
Variant production of a phoneme.
What is an allophone?
The first element of a diphthong.
What is an onglide?
The formula for calculating frequency.
What is f=1/T?
The resonant frequency of the vocal tract.
What is a formant?
Vibration of the vocal folds in creation of a voiced sound.
What is phonation?
A necessity for a syllable.
What is a nucleus?
the one-to-one correspondence between graphemes and phonemes.
What is isomorphism?
The y-axis on a waveform.
What is amplitude?
The representation of a spectrogram.
What is F1 and F2? (formant frequencies)
Modification of the airstream by the speech organs in production of spoken language.
What is articulation?
The point of articulation directly behind the teeth.
What is the alveolar ridge?
Production of a phoneme with an /r/ auditory quality
What is rhotacization?
A graphic representation of sound that displays time on the x-axis and intensity on the y-axis.
What is waveform?
A phenomenon exhibited by an acoustic system where the response of the sound waves become very large, the frequency of the sound approaches a natural vibration.
What is acoustic resonance?
The systems involved in speech production.
What is the respiratory, laryngeal, and supra-laryngeal system?
The rules for using the /e/ and /o/ sounds as DIPHTHONGS.
What is in the stressed position or the last sound in the word?