Manners of Articulation
Which manner of articulation imposes the greatest degree of impedance on the air stream?
stop
A pitch can be level, rising, or falling.
true
Individual speech sounds
phones
What do we call pitch that does not rise or fall?
level tone
nucleus
Which manner of articulation allows air to pass through the nasal cavity?
nasal
Pitch affects the actual meaning of a word in an intonational language.
A puff of air accompanying the release of a stop
aspiration
What is the perceived melody that accompanies speech?
pitch
A stop made because of complete closure of the air stream at the glottis is called a _______.
glottal stop
Which manner of articulation restricts the air flow enough to cause audible friction?
fricative
Intonation is the relative pitch that affects the implied meaning of a sentence or phrase.
true
The organ responsible for voicing
glottis
What do we call relative pitch that is used to distinguish the meaning of a single word?
tone
Two consonants occurring together in a sequence with no intervening vowels is called a _____ cluster.
consonant
Which manner of articulation allows air to pass around the sides of the tongue rather than over the top of the tongue?
lateral
A minimal pair is a pair of words that have only two phonetic differences between them.
false- one
articulators
What do we call a tone that begins at some point then moves higher or lower?
glided pitch
The ______ is generally known as the soft palate.
velum
Which part of a facial diagram makes it obvious that a sound is nasal?
open velic
Affricates in which the stop and the fricative do not share the same point of articulation are called homorganic affricates.
false- heterorganic
vocal cords
What type of tone system does not have pitch glides?
registered tone system
The point in time when the vocal cords begin to vibrate in relation to the time of the release of the articulators forming the consonant is called ____ ____ time.
voice onset