The Sounds of Language

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.

Affricates Signup and view all the answers

Sounds produced or uttered by escaping the air through nasal cavity

Nasals Signup and view all the answers

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

Nasals Signup and view all the answers

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

Liquids 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.

/l/ Signup and view all the answers

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

/r/ Signup and view all the answers

Air stopped by two lips

Bilabial Signup and view all the answers

Are produced with the lower lip against the upper teeth

Labiodental Signup and view all the answers

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

Dental Signup and view all the answers

6 manner of articulation

Stop, Fricative, Affricate, Nasal, Liquid and Glide Signup and view all the answers

7 place of articulation

Bilabial, Labiodental, Dental, Alveolar, Palatal, Velar and Glottal. Signup and view all the answers

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

Rhotic consonant Signup and view all the answers

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

non rhotic consonant Signup and view all the answers

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

Intrusive r Signup and view all the answers

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

Linking r Signup and view all the answers

The principal sounds of syllables

Vowels Signup and view all the answers

IPA acronym

International Phonetic Alphabet Signup and view all the answers

The upside down e that is found in unstressed syllables

Schwa Signup and view all the answers

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

Diphthong Signup and view all the answers

The best show a man puts on

Speech Signup and view all the answers

Greek words for 'man' and 'talk'

'Homo' and 'Loquens' Signup and view all the answers

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

Dennis Fry Signup and view all the answers

3 processes of speech production

Initiation, Phonation and Articulation Signup and view all the answers

3 Components of Voice Production

Voice, Place, Manner Signup and view all the answers

What are the resonating and modifying system

Resopators and Articulators Signup and view all the answers

Nasal cavity, oral cavity and phraynx

Resopators Signup and view all the answers

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

Articulators Signup and view all the answers

2 types of voice

Voiced and voiceless Signup and view all the answers

Voice folds, larynx or voice box

Vibration system Signup and view all the answers

Lungs, diaphragm and abdominal muscles

Air Pressure System 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.

Passive articulators Signup and view all the answers

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

Initiation Signup and view all the answers

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

Phonation Signup and view all the answers

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

Articulation Signup and view all the answers

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

Benjamin Lee Whorf Signup and view all the answers

2 types of Labiodental

Endolabial and Exolabial Signup and view all the answers

Upper teeth pressed against inside of lower lip

Endolabial Signup and view all the answers

Upper teeth pressed against outer side of lower lip

Exolabial Signup and view all the answers

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

Postalveolar Signup and view all the answers