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Intro to Phonetics & Phonology
A&P of Speech Production
Suprasegmentals
Initiation of an Airstream I
Initiation of an Airstream II
100
This is the basic unit of phonology.
What is the phoneme?
100

This part of the tongue is used to produce dorsal sounds.

What is the dorsum or tongue body?

100

This is a change in pitch that changes meaning at the syllable or word level.

What is tone?

100

This type of initiator uses the lungs to initiate an airstream for speech.

What is pulmonic?

100

This kind of sound is pulmonic ingressive.

What is disguised speech?

200

This is the branch of phonetics that studies how speech sounds travel through the air.

What is acoustic phonetics?

200

This articulator hangs off of the velum.

What is the uvula?

200

This is a change in pitch that changes meaning at the word, phrase, or sentence level.

What is intonation?

200

This type of airstream generally moves outwards or towards the outside of the body.

What is egressive?

200
This kind of sound is pulmonic egressive.
What are most speech sounds (or English consonants)?
300
This is the test used to determine what phonemes a language has.
What is a minimal pair?
300
This part of the body vibrates during the production of some speech sounds.
What are the vocal folds?
300

This is the perceptual correlate of fundamental frequency. In other words, how "high" or "low" a voice sounds.

What is pitch?

300

This type of initiator uses a closure between the back portion of the body of the tongue and velum to initiate an airstream in the oral cavity.

What is velaric?

300
This kind of sound is velaric ingressive.
What is a click?
400
This is a variation of a phoneme.
What is an allophone?
400
This is the soft, fleshy bump behind the teeth.
What is the alveolar ridge?
400

This is the degree of force of an utterance or prominence produced by means of respiratory effort for a particular syllable.

What is stress?

400

This type of airstream generally moves inwards or towards the inside of the body.

What is ingressive?

400
This kind of sound is glottalic egressive.
What is an ejective?
500
The study of the organization and patterns of sounds in a language.
What is phonology?
500
This is the bony structure that separates the nasal and oral cavities.
What is the (hard) palate?
500

These types of words are usually stressed instead of function words (articles, prepositions, etc.) in English.

What are content words (nouns, verbs, etc.)?

500

This type of initiator uses the raising or lowering of the larynx to initiate an airstream for speech.

What is glottalic?

500
This kind of sound is glottalic ingressive.
What is an implosive?