Anatomy
The upper lip, alveolar ridge, and velum are examples of this.
What is a passive articulator?
There are this many primary stresses in the word "shoelace."
What is one?
This is the most typologically common airstream mechanism.
What is pulmonic egressive?
Voiced English phonemes in citation form are all this modality.
What is modal voicing?
In English voiced stops, this acoustic feature is usually negative in word-initial position.
What is VOT?
This part of the tongue is commonly used to make alveolar sounds.
What is the tongue blade?
The Spanish word pimiento "pepper" has this many syllables.
What is 4 (or three in connected speech)?
[pi.mi.en.to] or [pi.mʲen.to]
Implosives is the blanket term for sounds with this airstream mechanism.
What is glottalic ingressive?
True or False: All segments can be breathy, creaky, or voiced.
False
This contrast of stops is allophonic in English.
What is aspiration?
This structure is at the back of the velum, and enables us to make sounds like [q].
What is the uvula?
A syllable which is [nɑ] in citiation form but [nɐ] in connected speech has undergone this.
What is reduction?
Glottalic egressives are also known as this.
What are ejectives?
This modality combines with low intonation to mark end of declarative sentences in English.
What is creaky voicing?
Daily Double: Measure the VOT of this symbol in praat.
What is -93 ms?
Interdental sounds are made with these articulators.
What are lower and upper teeth (passive) and tongue tip (active)?
The English segment [ə] can only be in the nucleus of this.
In the native pronunciation of Seattle, [si.ˈʔɑɬ], the final syllable has this airstream path.
What is lateral?
This modality often causes an unfaithful pitch track in Praat.
What is creaky voicing?
On a spectrogram, an aspirated stop and an ejective release burst can be distinguished by this.
What is aperiodic frication noise?
This active articulator makes contact with the pharynx to make pharyngeals.
What is the tongue root?
Listening: The provided segment has this airstream mechanism.
What is velaric ingressive?
This modality typically has a open quotient of about 66%
What is breathy voice?
What is a release burst?