Vocabulary
Speech Anatomy
Consonants
Vowels
Praat/Acoutic Analysis
100
A basic sound segment that has the linguistic function of distinguishing morphemes
What is a phoneme?
100
The rate of vocal fold vibration
What is the fundamental frequency?
100
A consonant that begins as a stop and is released as a fricative
What is an affricate?
100
Two vowels produced consecutively in the same syllable, phonemic
What is a diphthong?
100
The frequency at which a space will vibrate more strongly
What is a (resonant) formant?
200
This is a phonetic variant of a phoneme
What is an allophone?
200
A muscular structure located directly posterior to the hard palate
What is the velum?
200
Say the consonant /tʃ/
What is "ch"?
200
Say the diphthong /eɪ/
What is ay, as in Bailey?
200
This formant is concerned with tongue retraction.
What is the second formant (F2)?
300
A unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants, forming the whole or a part of a word
What is syllable?
300
The space between the vocal folds
What is the glottis?
300
Consonants by completely obstructing the airstream once it enters the oral cavity
What is a stop?
300
The vowel (monophthong) in the word "toe"
What is /o/?
300
When F1 and F2 come closer together [F1 rises or F2 dips], there is usually a ____________ sound manner occurring.
What is a bilabial sound, e.g. /m/, /b/?
400
All consonants preceding a vowel and any syllable
What is an onset?
400
The "voice box" of speech
What is the larynx?
400
Associated with vocal fold vibration, a sound is said to be _______ if the vocal folds vibrate during its production
What is voiced?
400
The vowel in the word "nut"
What is /ʌ/?
400
This sound manner is characterized by silence followed by an explosion in the spectrogram.
What is plosives or stops?
500
The part of the syllable with acoustic energy, usually a vowel
What is a nucleus?
500
An anatomic structure capable of movements that form the sounds of speech
What is an articulator?
500
The manner of articulation of the consonant in the word "shush"
What is a fricative?
500
The high, front vowel
What is /i/?
500
A measure of the periodic deviation in the voice signal, or the pitch perturbation of the signal.
What is jitter?
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