Anatomy
This is the path from the larynx to the lips.
What is the vocal tract?
This type of consonant requires air to flow through the nasal cavity.
What is a nasal consonant?
True or false: the vocal tract should be OPEN when singing vowels.
What is True?
When separating syllables, you should use this.
What is a vertical line?
This is the full name that we abbreviate as IPA.
What is the International Phonetic Alphabet?
This is the most powerful articulator we have.
What is the tongue?
What is an unvoiced consonant?
This is when you have two vowel sounds together.
What is a diphthong?
Each syllable in a word needs to have one of these.
What is a vowel sound?
This is what you must always put around lines of IPA.
What are brackets?
This is the flexible, soft cartilage behind the hard palate at the back of the throat. It can move up and down to enlarge the space in the vocal tract.
What is the soft palate?
This is the term for two consonants that use the same formation for articulation. Typically, one is voiced and the other is unvoiced.
What is a consonant pair?
[a], [ɛ], [o] are examples of this kind of vowel.
What is an open vowel?
This is the number of syllables in the word expeditiously.
What is five syllables?
This is the structure where we place vowels according to their openness.
What is the Vowel Cone?
This is the smooth-feeling bump behind your upper teeth.
What is the alveolar ridge?
1. Full stop of air
2. Build-up of pressure
3. Explosion of air
These are the two kinds of schwa.
What is stressed and unstressed?
This is the term for the syllable that gets the most emphasis in a word.
What is a stressed syllable?
This is the term for an incorrectly pronounced consonant.
What is a muffled consonant?
This is the space in the back of the throat from the soft palate to the vocal folds.
What is the pharynx?
[j] and [ɹ] are examples of what kind of consonant?
What is a glide?
These are the five cardinal vowels
What are [a], [ɛ], [i.], [o], [u]?
This vowel's IPA symbol changes based on wether the syllable is stressed or unstressed.
What is a schwa?
This kind of consonant requires a semi-closure of the vocal tract and friction to pronounce.
What is a fricative?