The Sounds of Language
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Fundamental building blocks of language

Sounds

Are voiceless stops (plosives/explosives). Flow of breath is stopped for a split second at some position in the mouth and is released by an explosion of air without vibration of vocal chords

Stops

Sounds in which air escapes through a small passage making hissing sound, also called continuants because you can make it without any interuption (sssss)

Fricatives

Begin as plosives and end as fricatives.

<p>Affricates</p> Signup and view all the answers

Sounds produced or uttered by escaping the air through nasal cavity

<p>Nasals</p> Signup and view all the answers

Consonants produced by blocking the mouth and letting airflow through the nose instead

<p>Nasals</p> Signup and view all the answers

Made with the tip of tongue in the vicinity of the alveolar ridge

<p>Liquids</p> Signup and view all the answers

Formed by letting airstream flow around the sides of the tongue as the tip of tongue makes contact with middle of alveolar ridge.

<p>/l/</p> Signup and view all the answers

Formed with the tip of tongue raised and curled back near the alveolar ridge

<p>/r/</p> Signup and view all the answers

Air stopped by two lips

<p>Bilabial</p> Signup and view all the answers

Are produced with the lower lip against the upper teeth

<p>Labiodental</p> Signup and view all the answers

Or interdental, produced with tip of tongue between the teeth or just behind upper teeth.

<p>Dental</p> Signup and view all the answers

6 manner of articulation

<p>Stop, Fricative, Affricate, Nasal, Liquid and Glide</p> Signup and view all the answers

7 place of articulation

<p>Bilabial, Labiodental, Dental, Alveolar, Palatal, Velar and Glottal.</p> Signup and view all the answers

With r, single word, corresponds r between 2 consecutive morphemes where it would not normally be pronounced.

<p>Rhotic consonant</p> Signup and view all the answers

not putting r, single word, england and whales, part of US and Southern Hemisphere

<p>non rhotic consonant</p> Signup and view all the answers

Ex; (idea (r) of ) in phrases and sentences

<p>Intrusive r</p> Signup and view all the answers

Example: (fear (r) of) in phrases and sentences

<p>Linking r</p> Signup and view all the answers

The principal sounds of syllables

<p>Vowels</p> Signup and view all the answers

IPA acronym

<p>International Phonetic Alphabet</p> Signup and view all the answers

The upside down e that is found in unstressed syllables

<p>Schwa</p> Signup and view all the answers

Vowel sound in which the tongue changes position to produce the sound of 2 vowels.

<p>Diphthong</p> Signup and view all the answers

The best show a man puts on

<p>Speech</p> Signup and view all the answers

Greek words for 'man' and 'talk'

<p>'Homo' and 'Loquens'</p> Signup and view all the answers

He refers man as a talking animal "talker than wise men"

<p>Dennis Fry</p> Signup and view all the answers

3 processes of speech production

<p>Initiation, Phonation and Articulation</p> Signup and view all the answers

3 Components of Voice Production

<p>Voice, Place, Manner</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the resonating and modifying system

<p>Resopators and Articulators</p> Signup and view all the answers

Nasal cavity, oral cavity and phraynx

<p>Resopators</p> Signup and view all the answers

Moving or being used. Soft palate, lips and tongue.

<p>Articulators</p> Signup and view all the answers

2 types of voice

<p>Voiced and voiceless</p> Signup and view all the answers

Voice folds, larynx or voice box

<p>Vibration system</p> Signup and view all the answers

Lungs, diaphragm and abdominal muscles

<p>Air Pressure System</p> Signup and view all the answers

If the active articulators are the lower lip and tongue. What is the type of articulator that was found in the upper surfaces of a oral tract (non-mobile). Upper lip, teeth, pharynx wall and roof of mouth.

<p>Passive articulators</p> Signup and view all the answers

Expelling air from lungs/setting air in motion through vocal tract

<p>Initiation</p> Signup and view all the answers

Through larynx (voicing) or opening of vocal chords that produced voice/voiceless

<p>Phonation</p> Signup and view all the answers

The sound types (manner) tongue & lips empede and they manipulate

<p>Articulation</p> Signup and view all the answers

According to him, the speech was best show man puts on.

<p>Benjamin Lee Whorf</p> Signup and view all the answers

2 types of Labiodental

<p>Endolabial and Exolabial</p> Signup and view all the answers

Upper teeth pressed against inside of lower lip

<p>Endolabial</p> Signup and view all the answers

Upper teeth pressed against outer side of lower lip

<p>Exolabial</p> Signup and view all the answers

Sounds a little further back (post) from alveolar ridge. Blade of tongue in contact with post-alveolar region.

<p>Postalveolar</p> Signup and view all the answers

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