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Consonants
Consonants II
Vowels
Vowels II
Potpourri
100
These 3-term labels are used when naming consonants.
What are voice, place and manner?
100
Refers to how the articulators are brought together to produce a consonant.
What is manner?
100
Speech sounds produced with a relatively open vocal tract, without articulatory constriction.
What are vowels?
100
This type of diphthong has the tongue raising during its production.
What is a closing diphthong?
100
Speech sounds produced with a relatively closed vocal tract, typically with significant articulatory restrictions.
What are consonants?
200
The place of articulation involving the lips.
What is labial?
200
This place of articulation involves the teeth.
What is dental?
200
The 3 articulatory parameters used to describe vowels.
What is the tongue position on the vertical and horizontal axes and lip shape?
200
The first portion of a diphthong.
What is the onglide?
200
Vowels produced in the context (i.e. nearby) of a nasal consonant undergo this kind of allophonic variation.
What is nasalization?
300
This type of articulation has the most complete amount of stricture.
What is a stop (or plosive)?
300
This place of articulation actually refers to the shape of the tongue, which is curled backward.
What is retroflex?
300
The lip shapes used in the production of various vowels.
What is rounded, neutral and spread?
300
This portion of the diphthong is typically shorter in English.
What is the offglide?
300
This allophonic variation can occur when speaking rate is increased or stress on a vowel is decreased.
What is reduction?
400
This kind of articulation involves repeated, rapid contact of the articulators.
What are trills?
400
This place of articulation involves drawing the root of the tongue into the pharynx.
What is pharyngeal?
400
Vowels that have greater muscular activity and longer duration.
What are tense vowels?
400
A vowel with an r-like quality to it.
What is a rhotic vowel?
400
This kind of articulation involves approximation of the tongue and palate.
What is palatal?
500
This kind of articulation has a brief strike of one articulator against another and is not prolongable.
What is a tap?
500
This place of articulation occurs between the two vocal folds.
What is glottal?
500
Vowels in which the tongue moves from one position to another during a single segment.
What are diphthongs?
500
A steady or "pure" vowel.
What is a monophthong?
500
A sound produced with a close degree of stricture that creates turbulent airflow.
What is a fricative?