The study of speech sounds, their acoustic and perceptual characteristics, and how they are produced by the speech organs.
What is phonetics?
100
The three major biological systems in the production of speech.
What is respiratory, laryngeal, and supra laryngeal?
100
Two-dimentional figure that displays the relative position of the tongue during vowel production.
What is the vowel quadrilateral?
100
A phoneme produced with a constriction in the vocal tract; usually found at the beginning and end of a syllable.
What is a consonant?
100
An articulatory error; classically categorized as an omission, substitution, addition, or distortion.
What is a misarticulation?
200
Alphabet used to represent the sounds of the world's languages.
What is the IPA?
200
Cartilaginous and muscular structure that houses the vocal folds.
What is the larynx?
200
Vowel phoneme consisting of one distinct articulatory element.
What is a monophthong?
200
Class of sounds produced with resonance throughout the entire vocal tract; they are produced with little constriction in the vocal tract.
What are sonorants?
200
A variation of speech or language based on geographic area, native language background, or social / ethnic group membership.
What is a dialect?
300
An alphabet that contains a separate letter for each individual sound in a language.
What is a phonetic alphabet?
300
Network consisting of the larynx, pharynx, and the oral and nasal cavities.
What is the vocal tract?
300
During articulation of a diphthong, the tongue is placed in the appropriate position of the first element, or ___________; then, the tongue moves in a gliding motion to the second element, or _____________.
What is onglide and offglide?
300
Refers to the specific articulators employed in the production of a particular phoneme; the location of the constriction in the vocal tract in the production of a consonant.
What is place of articulation?
300
Simplifications used by children not capable of producing adult speech patterns.
What are phonological processes?
400
The study of the production and perception of speech sounds versus the system of rules underlying speech production.
What is the difference between phonetics and phonology?
400
Structure composed of cartilaginous rings embedded in muscle tissue; connects the lungs with the larynx.
What is the trachea?
400
The English vowels which are rounded.
What is /u, ʊ, o, ɔ, ɚ, ɝ/?
400
This is considered a voiceless palatal fricative.
What is /ʃ/?
400
Form of English that is relatively devoid of regional characteristics.
What is Standard American English (SAE)?
500
Two or three contiguous consonants in a syllable.
What is a consonant cluster?
500
Production of an oral phoneme with accompanying nasal resonance due to a lowered velum.
What is nasalization?
500
A low, front, lax, unrounded vowel.
What is /æ/?
500
Stop-plosive consonants are made by these three characteristics.
What is a build up of intramural air pressure, a complete obstruction of the outgoing airstream by the articulators, and a release of air pressure?
500
The most noted ethnic dialect of English spoken in the U.S.; characterized by distinct phonological and vowel assimilation processes.