Target Phonetics Exam

w

i am a voiced bilabial glide

t

i am a voiceless alveolar stop

ʃ

i am voiceless post-alveolar fricative

g

i am a voiced velar stop

h

i am a voiceless glottal fricative

ð

i am a voiced interdental fricative

ɹ

i am a voiced retroflex

s,z

i am a pair of alveolar fricatives

d ͡ʒ

i am a voiced alveopalatal affricate

ŋ

i am a voiced velar nasal

j

i am a voiced palatal glide

p

i am a voiceless bilabial stop

s

i am a voiceless alveolar fricative

f,v

i am a pair of labiodental fricatives

θ

i am the cognate of /ð/.

acoustic

study of speech sounds as they travel through air, focuses on sound waves. think of signals and waves generated

auditory

study of how speech sounds are received and processed by the human ear and brain, into meaningful language

articulatory

study of physical properties of speech sounds as they travel. analyzes the sound waves produced by articulatory process

linguistic

the study of language and its structure, the study of morphology, syntax, phonetics, and semantics

phonemes

speech sounds that establish meaning, planning or production of speech sounds,

phones

mental representation of speech sounds,

articulatory

movement of the articulators

respiratory

mouth or nose airflow

resonatory

shaping the sound

phonatory

vocal fold vibration

oro-nasal

mouth or nose airflow

Determining if a z sound changes in spectral frequency over time by examining a speech spectrogram (a spectrogram is a visible representation of speech).

acoustic

Determining if a child’s tongue tip is raised or lowered when they produce an s sound by watching the child's mouth during speech production

articulatory

Determining if a child is transferring a sound pattern from their native language to words in their second language by examining a written transcript of the words they said. l

lingustic

Determining if a bilingual adult can differentiate between two sounds – one sound in their language and one sound in a language they do not speak.

auditory

maximal onset principle

this principle states that word-medial consonants should be assigned the onset position in a syllable, unless doing so would violate the phonological rules of the language

glide

type of approximant consonant that is not prolongable

obstruent consonants

this group of consonant sounds are produced with complete or partially obstruction of airflow through the vocal tract

allophones

these are variations pronouncing/producing sounds (phonemes) that can be either predictable or random

syllable arresting

term for consonant sounds in syllable-final position

grammatical stress

this type of stress refers to the emphasis that, if changed, results in a change in word meaning and the syntactical category of word

uvular

the posterior portion of the tongue and/or root of tongue approximates the uvula

coarticulation

overlapping of speech gestures

lexical stress

this is the underlying unchanging stress pattern of a word

Nasal

in this manner of articulation, the articulator blocks airflow through the oral cavity, while air escapes through the nasal cavity due to lowered velum

clinical phonetics

This is the study of practical application of phonetics to solving real-life problems affecting the diagnosis and treatment of individuals who exhibit speech sound errors

syllabification

process of segmenting words into syllables

contrastive stress

this type of stress emphasizes sound, syllable, or word so that a listener will pay attention to that sound, syllable, or word

Labiodental

in this place of articulation the lower lip approximates the under edge of upper front teeth

ambisyllabic

This refers to consonant sounds that are produced across two syllables

stress

the amount of emphasis we place on a sound, syllable, or word

frozen

this register consists of the use of unchanging archaic language, like the pledge of allegiance, lords prayer, etc.

sonorant consonants

speech sounds produced with continuous airflow and minimal obstruction to vocal tract