SHS. 201: phonetics Exam 2 Vowel Content Exam Chapter 4

tongue height

how high or low it is during phonation

tongue advancement

how forward or backward in the your tongue is

lip rounding

if your lips are rounded or not during production

monophthongs

those are the vowels within the quadrilateral

to give you a visual image of the position of the tongue in the oral cavity during production of monophthongs

what is the purpose of the quadrilateral

No

Are diphthongs in the quadrilateral?

2

How many placements does a diphthong have?

the tongue begins in one position then slides to the second positions

Diphthongs have 2 placements because ___

on glide

when the tongue is in its first position of production

off glide

when the tongue is in its ending position in production

tongue

what is the major articulator for vowels

sonorant

resonant throughout the vocal tract

true

True or False: All the front vowels are unrounded

true

true or false: Schwa is never stressed

open syllable

syllables that end with a vowel phoneme (no coda)

closed syllable

syllables that end with a consonant phoneme

nasalization

production of an oral phoneme with accompaying nasal resonanse due to a lowered velum

unrounded vowels

/i/, /ɪ/, /e/, /ɛ/, /æ/, /ɑ/, /ʌ/, /ə/

rounded vowels

/u/, /ʊ/, /o/ /ɔ/, unstressed “er” stressed “er”

true

true or false: shorts vowels would not be an open syllable