Place of Articulation
Manner of Articulation
Vowel symbols
Vowel Descriptions
Wild Card!
100
[p], [b], [m]
What is bilabial?
100
[m],[n]
What is a nasal stop?
100
The vowel sound in 'hoot'
What is [u]?
100
[i]
What is a high, front, tense, unrounded vowel?
100
[aI],[eI], and [ɔI] are all these.
What are diphthongs?
200
[f], [v]
What is labio-dental?
200
[l]
What is a lateral?
200
The vowel sound in 'pat'
What is [ᴂ]?
200
[ɑ]
What is a low, back, unrounded vowel?
200
The geographic boundary of one linguistic feature.
What is an isogloss?
300
[k],[g],[w]
What is velar?
300
[j],[w]
What is a semi-vowel.
300
The vowel sound in 'date'
What is [eI]?
300
[ɛ]
What is a mid, front, lax, unrounded vowel?
300
A single person's unique speech characteristics make up this.
What is an idiolect?
400
The first consonant sound in the word 'ship'
What is palato-alveolar?
400
[r]
What is an approximant.
400
The vowel sound in 'cut'
What is [ə]?
400
[ɔ]
What is a mid, back, lax, rounded vowel?
400
These are the main types of barriers that produce dialects.
What are geographic, social, and ethnic barriers?
500
[r]
What is postalveolar?
500
The second consonant sound in the word 'city'
What is a flap?
500
The vowel sound in 'toy'
What is [ɔI]?
500
The vowel in 'foot'
What is a high, back, lax, rounded vowel?
500
The main criterion for determining language boundaries are ________ (adj.). It has nothing to do with _______(two word noun), or the extent to which people can understand each other and communicate.
What are 'political' and 'mutual intelligibility'?
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