Where in the mouth were you made?
The fricative /v/ is formed using the teeth and lips.
What is labiodental?
Labio = lips and dental = teeth
What is Consonant?
(Consonant sounds are sounds in which airflow is either partially or completely cut off when the sound is produced.)
/b/, /p/, /d/, /t/, /g/, /k/ are all examples of letters that created by blocking off the air and then exploding a puff of air.
What is Plosives?
Linguistics is the formal study of _______ and how it works.
What is language?
The fricative /z/ is formed using the front of the mouth.
What is alveolar?
(alveolar ridge is the front of the mouth where the teeth arise)
In the book, Phonics from A to Z, written by Wiley Blevins, this grouping of sounds is referred to as "the music, or movement, of our language."
What is a vowel?
(Vowels are sounds that are produced when air in unobstructed when it is being made.)
/f/, /v/, /th/, /z/, /s/, /zh/, /sh/ are all examples of friction in the mouth.
What is fricatives?
(Fricatives are formed by narrowing the air channel and then forcing air through it.)
Phonetics is the study of ________.
What is sound?
What is /sh/
The singsong rhythm of the southern dialect is a result of producing most of their vowels by moving the mouth from one position to another as the sound is produced.
What is diphthong?
(Diphthong is a sound in which the position of the mouth changes position from one place to another as the sound is produced. examples of this includes, /oi/, long i and long u.)
Formed when the mouth is closed and air is forced through the nose, these letters are also referred to as nasal stops.
What is Nasals?
(examples of these letters are /n/, /m/, and /ng/.)
cat/hat differ by only one of these.
What is phoneme?
(Phoneme is a speech sound, it is the smallest unit of sound)
/b/
/d/
/z/
/g/
/v/
/j/
are all examples of __________ sounds.
What is voiced?
(voiced sounds are sounds that make your vocal cord vibrate)
In the word, snail, the sn retain their own sounds.
What is cluster?
(Cluster refers to two or more consonants that appear together in a word, each consonant retaining its own sound.)
Formed by interrupting airflow slightly, but no friction results, these letters are referred to as _______.
What is liquids?
(examples of liquid sounds are /l/, /r/.)
The /f/ sound can be represented by f(fan), ph(phone), or gh(laugh), these are examples of _________.
What is grapheme?
(A grapheme is the written representation of one sound.)
/p/
/t/
/s/
/k/
/f/
/th/
/sh/
/ch/
Are all examples of __________ sounds.
What is unvoiced sounds?
(unvoiced sound create no vibration on your vocal cords)
In the word, push, the /sh/ do not retain their individual sounds of /s/ /h/ but instead creates a new unique sound that doesn't represent either sound.
What is digraph?
(Digraph is when two consonants appear together in a word but they stand for one sound that different from either sound of each individual consonant.)
Sometimes called semivowels because they are formed in similar ways as vowels /w/, /y/, /h/ are examples of ______.
What is glides?
Of the 25 consonant phonemes, seven are a cluster of letters that stand for a sound which include, /sh/ and /ch/.
What is a digraph?