Body talk
Phones phones phones
Sound it out
Beyond the segment
Potpourri
100
The part of the SLVT that opens and closes the velopharyngeal port for nasal sounds.
What is the velum?
100
A peripheral vowel
What is [u]?
100
The error in this transcription for "merry": [mɛri]
What is [r] should be [ɹ]?
100
The unit of rhythm in English
What is stress?
100
People who have accents
Who is everyone?
200
The phonation type where the vocal folds are open 33% of the time.
What is creaky voicing?
200
the rows on the IPA consonant chart represent this
What is manner of articulation (and nasality and centrality)?
200
The word represented by [pə̥teɪɾoʊ tʃɪp]
What is potato chip?
200
A use of intonation
What is to ask a question?
200
A difference between human and primate anatomy
What is longer SLVT, lower hyoid bone and larynx, chin, simian shelf, larger temporal lobe, smaller motor cortex?
300
This body measurement is a factor in the lowest possible pitch you can speak.
What is vocal fold/tract length?
300
The passive articulators of English
What are the upper lips, upper teeth, alveolar ridge, post alveolar region, palate, velum, and glottis?
300
The result of adding together sine waves of different amplitudes, frequencies, and phases.
What is a complex wave?
300
The three acoustic cues we use to change our prosody
What are pitch, duration, and loudness?
300
The number of segments in the word "stretch" (counting affricates as 2 segments)?
What is 7 (s t͡ʃ ɹ ɛ t͡ʃ)?
400
The four step process of vocalization
What is 1) tense the focal folds 2) relax diaphragm and squeeze intercostals to increase air pressure 3) air causes vocal folds to vibrate 4) the SLVT filters the vibration?
400
The sound represented by this mid-sagittal diagram.
What is [z]?
400
Airstream mechanism used by beatboxers to catch their breath while maintaining rhythm.
What is pulmonic ingressive?
400
A feature of Indigenous languages of the PNW?
What are ejectives, contrastive glottalization, contrastive rounding, smaller vowel inventories, lateral fricatives/affricates?
400
How sound moves through the air
What is by causing vibrations that knock sequences of air molecules until they are attenuated by the ear drum + hair cells of the ear.?