Linguistic Phonetics
Basic speech segment, consisting of consonant & vowel sounds
Phonemes
The place and manner of articulation for /f/
Tongue height and tongue horizontal movement for /o/
Mid back
The pharynx is part of the __________ system
"y"
Smallest unit of language containing meaning
Morpheme
Voicing for /z/ (voiced or voiceless?)
Voiced
Tenseness (lax or tense?) and rounding (rounded or retracted?) for /u/
Tense, rounded
Respiratory system
/ʃ/ pronunciation
"sh"
Written representations of alphabetic letters
Graphemes
The place and manner of articulation for /h/
Glottal fricative
Tongue height and tongue horizontal movement for /i/
High front
Small cushions of muscle in the larynx that vibrate to produce voice
Vocal folds
/dʒ/ pronunciation
"j"
Two or more consonant phonemes occurring adjacent to each other
Consonant cluster
Voicing for /p/ (voiced or voiceless?)
Voiceless
Tenseness (lax or tense?) and rounding (rounded or retracted?) for schwa /ə/
Lax, unrounded
The teeth, hard palate, and alveolar ridge are examples of _______ __________.
Immobile articulators
/θ/ pronunciation
"th"
Variants of the same phoneme
Allophones
The place and manner of articulation for /k/
Tongue height and tongue horizontal movement for /ɑ/
Low back
Most sounds in English require a __________ velum
Raised
/ʒ/pronunciation
"zh"