Terms
Place and Manner
IPA
Vowels
Wild!
100
The smallest units of sound.
What are phonemes?
100
Place where p, b, m are articulated.
What is bi-labial?
100
aɪ həʊp ðɪ ɪgzæm ɪz i:zi
What is "I hope the exam is easy"?
100
High and low.
What is tongue height?
100
Approach, hold and release.
What are the three stages in the production of plosives?
200
Sounds made by obstructing air flow as it passes from the lungs through the vocal tract.
What are consonants?
200
Place where k, g, ŋ are articulated.
What is velar?
200
lɪŋgwɪstɪks ɪz maɪ feɪvərət sʌbdʒekt
What is "Linguistics is my favorite subject"?
200
The vowel used when the syllable is not stressed.
What is "schwa"?
200
The difference between /p/ and /b/.
What is voicing?
300
Where a sound is produced.
What is place of articulation?
300
Place where h is articulated.
What is glottal?
300
fləʊt laɪk ə bʌtəflaɪ /stɪŋ laɪk ə bi:
What is "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee"?
300
The difference between /ɪ/ and /i:/, /e/ and /ɜ:/, and /ɒ/ and /ɔ:/.
What is tenseness?
300
Tap and trill.
What are two of the allophones of /r/?
400
How a sound is produced.
What is manner of articulation?
400
Sounds that are produced by completely stopping airflow.
What are plosives?
400
"Education is the most powerful weapon"
What is "edʒʊkeɪʃn ɪz ðə məʊst paʊəfl wepn"?
400
/aɪ/, /aʊ/, /ɔɪ/
What are diphthongs?
400
These two groups are different in their release stage.
What are plosives and affricates?
500
The phenomenon in which a small “puff of air” escapes through the vocal folds after the release phase.
What are aspiration?
500
Speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow.
What are approximants?
500
ˈəʊpən ə skuːl / kləʊs ə ˈprɪzn
What is "Open a school, close a prison"?
500
/u:/, /ʊ/, /ɒ/, and /ɔ:/.
What are rounded vowels?
500
These consonants are phonetically similar to vowels but function as the syllable boundary.
What are semi-vowels?