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Consonants
Vowels
Miscellaneous
Connected Speech
Clinical Phonetics
100
A speech sound created with a complete blockage of the oral cavity followed by a slow release.
What is an affricate?
100
The articulatory description of the vowel in 'man'.
What is low front?
100
2 sounds that never occur in the same phonetic environment are said to be in this type of distribution.
What is complementary distribution?
100
The 'n' in 'tenth' produced with an interdental place of articulation.
What is regressive (anticipatory) assimilation?
100
Prelinguistic stage of vocalization that emerges between 7 and 9 months of age.
What is canonical babble?
200
Voiced bilabial nasal.
What is /m/?
200
Phonetic context in which English vowels are lengthened.
What is before voiced obstruents?
200
A sound wave that repeats at regular intervals.
What is a periodic sound wave?
200
Term for deletion of a segment from a word.
What is elision?
200
The most frequent consonants in babble.
What are stops, nasals, and glides?
300
Voiced palatal liquid.
What is /r/?
300
The primary articulator in the production of vowels.
What is the tongue?
300
The amplified frequencies from the transfer function in the production of vowels.
What are formants?
300
Questions produced with a rising intonational contour?
What are yes/no questions?
300
Term for babble that contains repeated sequences of consonants and vowels (e.g. 'dada').
What is reduplicated babble?
400
The articulatory description of /k/.
What is voiceless velar stop?
400
The only vowels that can occur in stressed open syllables.
What are tense vowels?
400
Formant that is related to the length of the front oral cavity.
What is F2?
400
The modification of voice pitch during speech.
What is intonation?
400
Speech error occurring when velar sounds are produced with an alveolar place of articulation.
What is velar fronting?
500
The articulatory description of the final sound in "watch".
What is voiceless palatal affricate?
500
Vowels produced with two qualities (in one syllable).
What are diphthongs?
500
The pronunciation of a dialect.
What is an accent?
500
Shortest (in duration) speech segments.
What are stops?
500
Use of a vowel for a liquid that occurs in the nucleus or coda of a syllable.
What is vocalization?