| Term | Definition |
|---|
| what is a segment | discrete units of the speech stream, further divided into vowels and consonants |
| what is a suprasegmental | ride on tip of - stuff like stress, tone, intonation |
| monophthongs | simple vowels |
| diphthongs | complex voewls that contain two different configurations |
| what is articulation | the motion or positioning of some part of vocal tract with respect to some other vocal tract surface in the production of speech sound |
| What are three things you need to know when describing consonant | voiced or voiceless / place of articluation (where airstream constricted) / manner of articluation (how is air constricted) |
| Voiced sounds are made when | vocal folds vibrate |
| Voiceless sounds are made when | without any vibration |
| What is bilabial mean (with regards to place of articulation) | bringing both lips together (pat, bat, mat, with, where) |
| What does labiodental mean (with regards to place of articulation) | lower lips against the upper front tooth (fat, vat) |
| What does interdentals mean (with regards to place of articulation) | with tip of tongue protruding between front teeth (thigh, thy) |
| What does alveolar mean (with regards to place of articulation) | tip of tongue at or neave alveolar ridge (small ridge that protrudes just behind front teeth) (tab, dab, sip, zip, loose, red) |
| What does palatal mean (with regards to place of articulation) | made further back in mouth (leash, measure, chuch, judge, yes) |
| What does velar mean (with regards to place of articulation) | produced at the soft part of roof of the mouth (kill, gill, sing) |
| What does glottal mean (with regards to place of articulation) | produced at larnx (high, history, uh-oh) |
| What do stops mean (with regards to manner of articulation) | made by obstructing the airstream completely |
| What do fricatives mean (with regards to manner of articulation) | made by forming a nearly complete obstruction of the vocal tract, hissing mouth noise |
| What do Affricatives mean (with regards to manner of articulation) | made by briefly stopping the airstreeam completely and then releasing the articulation slightly so that frication noise is produced. (church, judge) |
| What do nasals mean (with regards to manner of articulation) | produced by lowering the velum and thus opening the nasal passage to the vocal tract (m in kim, n in kin) |
| What do liquids mean (with regards to manner of articulation) | consonant sound produced by an obstruction of airflow that is less narrow than stops or fractives, but more narrow than glides |
| What do glides mean (with regards to manner of articulation) | made with only a slight closure of the articulators, so that if the vocal tract were any more open, the result would be a vowel sound ( |
| What is a low vowel | the tendency for the jaw to open (cat, cot) |
| What is a high vowel | pronounced with the tongue body close to the roof of the mouth (leak, lick, luke, look) |
| What are tense vowels | more extreme positions of the tongue or lips than lax vowels |
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