What's the Manner?
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About Place
Small Change
The Home Stress
100

A manner in which the vocal tract is completely closed for some interval so that airflow ceases.

What is stop?

100

Voiceless, bilabial stop.

What is /p/?

100

A place of articulation involving insertion of the tongue tip into the space between the upper and lower incisors.

What is interdental / lingua dental?

100

These special symbols are used to indicate particular changes to phoneme production.

What are diacritics?

100

This type of stress can change the meaning of a word  (such as "record") from a noun to a verb.

What is lexical stress?

200

Using this manner, sound energy radiates into the nasal cavity; such sounds are associated with an open velopharynx.

What is nasal?

200

Voiceless labio-dental fricative.

What is /f/?

200

This place of articulation pertains to the two lips.

What is bilabial?

200

This small change indicates a non-nasal phoneme was produced with some degree of nasal resonance.

What is nasalized?

200

This term refers to the greatest degree of emphasis associated with a particular syllable in a word.

What is primary stress?

300

A manner in which continuous noise is generated as air is channeled through a narrow articulatory constriction.

What is fricative?

300

Voiceless lingua-palatal (or post-alveolar) fricative.

What is "sh"?

300

The most used place of articulation; an extension of the maxilla where consonants are formed between the hard palate and the upper incisors.

What is alveolar?

300

When a stop phoneme is followed by an audible release burst of noise it is _______.

What is aspirated?

300

A broad term for describing the vocal effects that extend OVER more than one sound SEGMENT in an utterance

What are suprasegmentals?

400

Stop + fricative sequence.

What is affricate?

400

Voiced lingua-alveolar liquid.

What is /l/?

400

This place of articulation pertains to the undersurface of the hard or soft palate.  Consonants are made with articulations of the dorsum of the tongue against this surface.

What is velar?

400

This small change indicates a phoneme was produced with release of air around the lateral edges of the tongue.

What is lateralized?

400

A shortening or unstressing of a vowel, which may result in a change in vowel quality to central “schwa”.

What is reduction?

500

This manner involves a gliding movement from a partly constricted vocal tract to a more open vocal tract shape.

What is glide?

500

Voiced, velar nasal.

What is "ng"?

500

This place of articulation involves the lower lip and upper incisors.

What is labiodental?

500

This small change indicates an /r/ consonant or an /r/ colored vowel phoneme was produced lacking rhotic quality.

What is derhotacized?

500

These (3) phonetic properties cue the difference between stressed and unstressed syllables.

What are pitch, loudness and duration?

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