Basics
The study of speech sounds.
What is Phonetics?
Three articulators used in spoken language.
What are tongue, mouth, and vocal tract?
Speech sounds made by closing the vocal tract in some way.
What are consonants?
Sounds made without closing the vocal tract.
What are vowels?
Refers to changing the pitch of a vowel.
Used by linguists to write out the precise pronunciations of words.
What is the International Phonetic Alphabet?
Thin layers of tissue that move to make sound.
What are vocal cords?
Made by completely stopping air flow.
The number of total vowel sounds in American English.
What is 21?
Changing of pitch to change the meaning of a sentence.
What is intonation?
The IPA is structured a lot like this table used in chemistry.
What is the periodic table?
What is the vocal tract?
What is bilabial?
The most common vowel sound pronounced in English.
What is schwa?
Whether or not a vowel is made by allowing air to pass through the nose.
What is nasalization?
Use a combination of speech sounds to make new words.
What are spoken languages?
In signed languages, these two body part act as main articulators.
What are the hands and the face?
Consonant sounds made with the tongue close to or touching the hard palate.
What is alveolar?
Created by combining two vowel sounds together.
What is a diphthong?
Made by continuous airflow through narrow channel (creating friction).
What is fricative?
IPA is a ________ set of symbols representing all the sounds relevant to spoken language.
Five major features of signed language articulation.
What are hand shape, palm orientation, movement, location, and non-manual signs?
Consonant sounds made with the back part of the tongue against the soft palate.
What is velar?
The amount of time a vowel is produced for.
What is length?
Made by a closure in the oral cavity, airflow through the nose.