Vowels
Consonants
IPA
Building Words
Terms to Know
100

The way to say vowels

What is always voiced

100

The consonants that come before, after, and in between vowels

What are prevocalic, postvocalic, and intervocalic consonants

100

/kek/

What is "cake"


100

Voiced velar stop + mid front vowel + unvoiced alveolar stop

What is /get/ 

"gate"

100

The sound system of a language. Includes sounds and their variations and rules for combining those sounds

What is phonology

200

All vowels are 

What are sonorants
200

What happens to the air flow through the resonation system and the articulation system

What is manner

200

/bid/

What is "bead"
200

Voiced bilabial stop + high front vowel + voiced alveolar stop

What is /bid/

"bead"

200

The smallest unit of language capable of carrying meaning

What is a morpheme

300

There is no constriction of the airstream as it passes through this

What is the oral cavity

300

The articulators that actually produce the phoneme

What is place

300

/kap/

What is "cop"

300

Unvoiced bilabial stop + low back vowel + unvoiced bilabial stop

What is /pap/

"pop"

300

A speech sound

What is a phoneme

400

These cause different resonances to be formed

That is tongue position and tongue height

400

Some phonemes are produced with vocal fold vibration and some are not

What is voicing

400

/dag/

What is "dog"

400

Voiced bilabial stop + mid back vowel + unvoiced alveolar stop

What is /bot/

"boat"

400

Two letters that represent a single speech sound

What is a digraph

500

We organize the vowels in this

What is the vowel quadrilateral
500

/spat/ and /baks/ are examples of this

What is cluster or blend
500

/dud/

What is "dude"

500
Unvoiced bilabial stop + mid high front vowel + unvoiced alveolar stop

What is /pIt/

"pit"

500

Air that builds up when your vocal folds adduct

What is subglottal pressure