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This notation system is used by linguists and speech-language pathologists to precisely transcribe speech.
What is the International Phonetic Alphabet?
This consonant type begins as an oral stop and ends as a fricative.
What is an affricate?
A labiodental segment is produced by these two articulators.
What are the lips and the teeth?
Except in rare, exceptional circumstances, all vowels always have this characteristic.
What is voiced?
[p b t d k g]
What are oral stops?
The vowel in the word mud is represented by this symbol.
What is [ ʌ ]?
This degree of occlusion (manner of articulation) completely obstructs (oral) airflow.
What is stop?
The most common active articulator in human speech.
A vowel with two elements, produced at contrasting places of articulation.
What is a diphthong?
[ tʃ dʒ ]
What are affricates?
This symbol is commonly written upside-down as a shorthand in broad phonetic transcription.
What is [ ɹ ]?
This natural class must be described using the characteristics lateral and central.
What are liquids?
This is the adjective used to describe sounds articulated at the bony ridge behind the teeth.
What is alveolar?
Contrary to the official IPA chart, we will treat this vowel as a central vowel, not a front vowel.
[ i ʒ l m g ]
What are voiced sounds?
A phone produced with voicing and the tongue in contact with both the top and bottom teeth is represented by this symbol.
What is [ ð ]?
The correct order of necessary and sufficient characteristics to phonetically describe any consonant.
What is voicing, place of articulation, nasality, occlusion type?
Also called the soft palate, this is the articulator used to close the nasal cavity off from the oral cavity.
What is the velum?
Even when two vowels are identical with respect to height, backness, and rounding, a language can still contrast them on the basis of this characteristic.
What is tenseness/laxness?
[ e ɛ o ɔ ǝ ʌ ]
These two symbols represent two common English phones with a secondary articulation.
What are [ w ] and [ ɫ ]?
The most salient phonetic difference between the consonants: [ g k kh ].
What is voice onset time (VOT)?
Palatal consonants are articulated with this region of the tongue.
What is the body?
While neither contrast is present in English, this language contrasts vowels based on both nasality and rounding.
What is French?
[ f v θ ð h ]
What are non-strident fricatives?