Regional/Social Dialects
ESL Dialects
Acoustic relationships
Acoustic terms
Suprasegmentals
100

The other name for General or Standard American English

What is Mainstream American English?

100

The voiced fricative /v/ is sometimes stopped and produced as /b/

What is Spanish influenced English?

100

How are F1 and tone height related?

What is inversely

100
Vibration of air molecules.
What is sound?
100
The sonorous center of a syllable.
What is the nucleus?
200

Applied primarily to written language 

What is Formal Standard English?

200

Epenthesis of /ə or ɛ/preceding initial /s/ + stop clusters

What is Spanish influenced English?

200

What is F3 influenced by?

What are other articulators such as lip rounding?

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

There are up to ____ regional dialects in the US alone.

What is 14?

300

Consonant Clusters do not exist in 

What is Chinese and Vietnamese?

300

How are these terms related: burst, frication, vocal fold vibration

What are consonant sources of energy?

300
One period of repetition of a sound wave pattern, measured in cycles/second.
What is frequency?
300
Long consonants.
What are geminates?
400

–Shift in pronunciation of  vowels /ɔ, ɑ, æ, ɪ, ɛ, and ʌ/

What is Northern Cities Vowel Shift?

400

These speakers do not aspirate the voiceless stops /p/, /t/, and /k/ at the beginning of stressed syllables

What are Indian English speakers?

400

What sound has all three: stop gap, frication, voice bar 

What is the voiced affricate /ʤ/?

400

The different resonant frequencies in the acoustic signal that are crucial for vowel identification

What are formant frequencies?

400

Contrastive pitch in languages.

What are tones?

500

The dialects affected by the pin-pen merger 

What are Southern American English and African American Vernacular Dialect 

500

These speakers sometimes add a vowel to the end of a syllable or word in an attempt to create an open syllable

What are Japanese Speakers?

500

Voiced consonants are _______ intense than voiceless consonants 

What is less

500
The characteristic joining of F2 and F3 for the sounds [g] and [k].
What is a velar pinch?
500

The type of questions with a gradual decrease in pitch across the utterance.

What are WH questions?