Sound Characteristics
Vowel Characteristics
Vowel Transcriptions
Vocabulary
Anything Goes
100
The vibratory properties of any sound-producing body
What is resonance?
100
Lip configuration of vowels that are NOT retracted, includes all back vowels except one as well as r-colored vowels
What are rounded vowels?
100
Description of a vowel that is prodcued with a reduction in muscular effort
What is a lax vowel?
100
A single phoneme consisting of two vowel articulatory positions
What is a diphthong?
100
First element of a diphthong
What is an onglide?
200
The number of cycles a vibrating body completes in one second
What is frequency?
200
Refers to how high or low in the oral cavity the tongue is when producing a particular vowel
What is tongue height?
200
name for the short e vowel, as in the word 'head'
What is Epsilon?
200
Vibration of the vocal folds in creation of a voiced sound
What is phonation?
200
Description of a vowel produced with an increase in muscular effort
What is a tense vowel?
300
Another word for sound quality
What is timbre?
300
A vowel phoneme consisting of one distinct articulatory element
What is a monophthong?
300
Name for the short a sound, like in the word 'cat'
What is Ash?
300
Vowels produced with an unrounded lip configuration, including all front vowels, among others
What is a retracted vowel?
300
Second element of a diphthong
What is an offglide?
400
The characteristic in which frequency is perceived
What is pitch?
400
A two dimensional figure, representing tongue height and advancement, that displays relative position of the tongue in oral cavity during vowel production
What is the vowel quadrilateral?
400
name for the unstressed 'uh' phoneme
What is schwa?
400
Phonemes that are produced without any appreciable constriction or blockage of air flow in the vocal tract
What are vowels?
400
One of four extreme corner vowels of the vowel quadrilateral
What is a point vowel?
500
The amplitude (magnitude) of energy associated with a particular sound
What is intensity?
500
Refers to how far forward or backward in the mouth the tongue is when producing a particular vowel
What is tongue advancement?
500
A speech sound consisting of 2 elements: vowel + /r/
What is an r-colored vowel?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!! the group of vowels affected by syllable stress, name the category and list of them
What are the central vowels? /ə/, /ʌ/, /ɚ/, /ɝ/
500
a list of all the front vowels
What are /i/, /ɪ/, /e/, /ɛ/, /æ/?