Phonetics Vowel Content Exam

What is the major articulator for vowels?

Tongue

How do we classify vowels?

Tongue Height, Tongue Advancement, Lip Rounding

Tongue Advancement

tells the position of the tongue, front or back

Tongue Height

Where the tongue is, up or down

Lip Rounding

whether the lips are rounded or not during production

Monophthongs

vowels we can classify, 1 place of production

Diphthongs

2 places of production

Onglide

Beginning position of the tongue for diphthongs

Offglide

Ending position of the tongue for diphthongs, always higher than the onglide

What is the highest front vowel?

/i/

What are the four point vowels?

·         /i/ (beet), /æ/ (bat), /u/ (boot), /a/ (hot)

What is the quadrilateral?

It is used to demonstrate tongue placement for monophthongs, and is a visual representation of the inside of the mouth

Glides

act like vowels so it is moving or gliding into the vowel and perceived as one sound. Example: /kjut/ cute

Allophones

variant production of a phenome depending on the stress. Example: /oʊ/ and /o/

Sonorant

resonance throughout the vocal tract with no constriction. all vowels are sonorant and voiced

Nasalization

The velum is somewhere between closed and open, the velum acts as a door to close off the resonance of the airflow to the nose. When air escapes into the nasal cavity, it creates nasalization. Example: /m/ when vowels come before or after a nasal sound, they will have nasalizaiton