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General
Articulatory phonetics
IPA
Acoustic phonetics
Suprasegmentals
100
The study of speech production and perception
What is phonetics?
100
These organs create the difference between voiced and voiceless sounds.
What are the vocal folds/vocal cords?
100
[p]
What is a voiceless bilabial stop?
100
Vibration of air molecules.
What is sound?
100
The sonorous center of a syllable.
What is the nucleus?
200
Speech sounds.
What are phones?
200
The place of articulation for the sounds [k] [g] [ŋ].
What is the velum?
200
[ʒ]
What is a voiced alveopalatal fricative?
200
Measurement of volume for a sound wave.
What is amplitude?
200
The suprasegmental feature that distinguishes "desert" and "dessert" in English.
What is stress?
300
Where air passes through in order to make speech sounds.
What is the vocal tract?
300
Three different manners of articulation among English and other language sounds.
What is stop/fricative/affricate/approximant/trill/ implosive/ejective/etc.?
300
[ɫ]
What is a velarized lateral alveolar approximant?
300
One period of repetition of a sound wave pattern, measured in cycles/second.
What is frequency?
300
Long consonants.
What are geminates?
400
The study of speech sound organization.
What is phonology?
400
The three different dimensions by which we define vowels.
What is height, backness, and rounding?
400
[k’']
What is a (voiceless) velar ejective?
400
The different harmonics produced for different filter shapes, even given the same fundamental frequency.
What are formant frequencies?
400
Contrastive pitch in languages.
What are tones?
500
The study of gesture organization through time.
What is articulatory phonology.
500
The time delay between release of a voiceless stop and onset of voicing for the following vowel.
What is aspiration?
500
[waɪdɪdðəfoʊnətʰɪʃn̩kɹɑsðəɹoʊd]
What is "Why did the phonetician cross the road"?
500
The characteristic joining of F2 and F3 for the sounds [g] and [k].
What is a velar pinch?
500
The gradual decrease in pitch across an utterance.
What is declination?