Diction Matching (FINAL)

  1. BILABIAL: Consonants produced through the full or partial closing of the lips

  2. LABIO-DENTAL: Consonants produced as a result of contact between the lower lip and the upper teeth

  3. LINGUA-DENTAL: Consonants produced as a result of contact between the tip of tongue and the teeth

  4. LINGUA-ALVEOLAR (or ALVEOLAR): Consonants produced as a result of contact between the tip of tongue and the alveolar ridge

  5. LINGUA-POST-ALVEOLAR (or POST-ALVEOLAR): Consonants produced as a result of contact between the tongue and the area behind the alveolar ridge

  6. RETROFLEX: Consonants produced by allowing the tip of the tongue to curve up and to the back slightly.

  7. PALATAL: Consonants produced as a result of contact between the middle or back of the tongue and the hard palate

  8. VELAR: Consonants produced as a result of contact between the middle or back of the tongue and the velar region, or the soft palate.

  9. GLOTTAL: Consonants produced as a result of laryngeal tension

  10. AFFRICATIVE CONSONANT: A stop-plosive consonant with a simultaneous fricative consonant

  11. COGNATES: Pairs of phonemes that differ only in voice

  12. VOICED: description of a consonant that is produced with vocalization of the vocal folds.

  13. UNVOICED: description of a consonant that is produced without vocalization of the vocal folds

  14. “Dental” consonants [d, n, t, l]: Although these are technically ALVEOLAR consonants, voice teachers and coaches sometimes refer to these as “dental.” When producing these sounds allow the tip of the tongue to be so far forward that you are touching the back of your front teeth.

  15. NASAL CONSONANTS: Phonemes produced with resonance reinforcement from the nasal cavity

  16. STOP-PLOSIVES (or PLOSIVES): Consonants produced by stopping and then releasing the air

  17. FRICATIVES: Consonants produced through partial closure of the articulators around the breath canal

  18. APPROXIMANTS: Consonants produced by bringing the articulators very close together but not quite making contact

  19. LATERALS: Consonants produced lifting of part of the tongue to the roof of the mouth, thereby causing the air to flow out on either side of the tongue.

  20. PHONEME: A basic unit of sound in speech

  21. STOP-PLOSIVE CONSONANT: Consonants produced by stopping and then releasing the air

  22. DIPHTHONGS: Sounds produced through continuous motion of the articulators. This creates the effect of two vowel sounds are uttered in a single breath impulse within a single syllable and the second of the two vowel sounds is longer than the first.

  23. CONSONANTS: Speech sounds that are produced by full or partial obstruction of the breath canal

  24. VOWELS: Speech sounds that are produced without obstruction of the breath canal

  25. GLIDES: When two vowel sounds are uttered in a single breath impulse within a single syllable and the first of the two vowel sounds is longer than the second

  26. NASAL VOWELS: Vowels produced by lowering the velum (soft palate) so that the air is directed through the nasal cavity. These sounds are found in the French Language