Place of Articulation
Bilabial Articulators
What are both lips?
What is a high, front, tense vowel?
The definition of a phoneme
What is the smallest unit of sound that can distinguish between phonemes?
/kɑntræst/
What is "contrast"?
The definition of a vowel
What is a speech sound formed without a significant constriction of airflow?
What are the tongue tip and the teeth?
A low-mid, back, tense vowel?
What is /ɔ/?
The definition of a consonant
What is a speech sound that is produced with a significant constriction of the oral/pharyngeal cavities?
/sikwɛns/
What is "sequence"?
The three dimensions of a consonant
What is voiced/voiceless, place of articulation, and manner of articulation?
Alveolar Articulators
What are the tongue tip and alveolar ridge?
A mid, front, tense vowel?
What is /ēɪ̄/?
Where a speech sound is formed
What is Place of Articulation?
/wɛðɚ/
What is "weather"?
Variation of a phoneme that does not change the meaning
What is an allophone?
Glottal Articulators
What are the larynx/vocal folds?
a mid-central, lax, rounded vowel
What is /ɚ/?
When either the onglide or offglide are alone, they are different phoneme
What is a phonemic diphthong?
/fʌŋkʃən/
What is "function"?
Two allophones that will not occur in the same phonetic environment
What is complementary distribution?
What is the blade of the tongue and palate, or center of the tongue and palate?
The tense/lax pairs
/i/&/ɪ/; /e/&/ɛ/; /u/&/ʊ/
Marks added to phonemes to symbolize allophonic variation
What are diacritic marks?
/ɪkskyuz/
What is "excuse"?
Allophones that can occur in the same phonetic environment
What is free variation?