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English as a World Language
Sound Description Quiz
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English
Undergraduate 4
02/04/2009

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What consonants are the only two liquids? What are their characteristics?
Definition
R and L. R is a voiced alveolar liquid and L is a voiced alveolar (lateral) liquid.
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What consonants are semi-vowels? What are their characteristics?
Definition
The two semi-vowels are W and J. W is a voiced bilabial glide and J is a voiced palatal glide.
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What three consonants are nasal? Characteristics?
Definition
M, N, and ŋ. M is a voiced bilabial nasal. N is a voiced alveolar nasal. ŋ is a voiced velar nasal.
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What are two affricates? Characteristics?
Definition
ʧ and d3. ʧ is a voiceless palato-alveolar affricate. d3 is a voiced palato-alveolar affricate.
Term
What are the bibabial letters?
Definition
Voiced- b, m, and w. Voiceless- p.

P and B are plosives.
M is nasal.
W is a semi-vowel.
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What are the two labio-dental letters?
Definition
F and V.

F is a voiceless fricative.
V is a voiced fricative.
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What are the two inter-dental letters (or just dental)?
Definition
θ and ð. θ is a voiceless fricative and ð is a voiced.
Term
What letters are alveolar?
Definition
T, D, S, Z, N, R, L.

T is a voiceless plosive.
D is a voiced plosive.

S is a voiceless fricative.
Z is a voiced fricative.

N is a voiced nasal.

R and L are voiced alveolar liquids.
Term
What letters are palato-alveolar?
Definition
ʃ,3, ʧ, d3.

ʃ is a voiceless fricative.

3 is a voiced fricative.

ʧ is a voiceless affricate.

d3 is a voiced affricate.
Term
What letter is palatal?
Definition
J. J is a voiced semi-vowel.
Term
What letters are velar?
Definition
K, G, and ŋ.

K is a voiceless plosive.
G is a voiced plosive.
ŋ is a voiced nasal.
Term
What letters are glottal?
Definition
H. H is a voiceless fricative.
Term
What are the three ways to describe consonants?
Definition
1) Voicing (voiced or voiceless)

2) Place of articulation (interdental, labiodental, bilabial, alveolar, alveopalatal, palatal, velar, glottal)

3) Manner of articulation (plosive, nasal, affricate, fricative, liquid, glide)
Term
What is the consonant description for the word pack?
Definition
(p) is a voiceless bilabial plosive
Term
What is the consonant description for the word Jack?
Definition
(d3) is a voiced alveopalatal affricate
Term
What is the consonant description for the word lack?
Definition
(l) is a voiced alveolar liquid
Term
What is the consonant description for the word whack?
Definition
(w) is a bilabial glide (voiced).
Term
What is the consonant description for the word sack?
Definition
(s) is a voiceless alveolar fricative.
Term
What is pheonetics?
Definition
The study of speech sounds.
Term
Who was the first phonetician?
Definition
It is believed to be Indra,. According to the Hindu myth, the god Indra was the first to segment speech into its seperate elements. After this, sound could be perceived as a language.
Term
What two sounds are not speech sounds in any language?
Definition
Sneezing and clearing a tickle in our throats.
Term
What is phonetics trying to accomplish?
Definition
Trying to describe all the sounds used in the human language- sounds that constitute a subset of the totality of sounds that humans can produce.
Term
What is acoustic phonetics? Auditory? Articulatory?
Definition
Acoustic phonetics is the study of the physical properties of the sounds themselves. Auditory phonetics is the way listeners perceive these sounds. Articulatory phonetics (primary concern) is the study of how the vocal tract produces the sounds of language.
Term
What is orthography?
Definition
the art of writing words with the proper letters, according to accepted usage; correct spelling.
Term
What sound does the letter θ represent?
Definition
th as in thigh.
Term
What sound does the letter ð represent?
Definition
th as in thy.
Term
What sound does the letter č represent>?
Definition
chill. in IPA language the symbol is tʄ.
Term
What sound does the letter ʄ/š represent?
Definition
shill
Term
What sound does the letter 3/ž represent?
Definition
azure
Term
What sound does the letter ǰ or d3 represent?
Definition
Jill
Term
What sound does the letter ʍ represent?
Definition
which
Term
What sound does the letter æ represent?
Definition
Bat
Term
What sound does the letter ʌ represent?
Definition
butt
Term
What sound does the letter aj represent?
Definition
bite
Term
What sound does the letter ᴐj represent?
Definition
boy
Term
What sound does the letter ɛ represent?
Definition
bet
Term
What sound does the letter ɔ represent?
Definition
bore
Term
What sound does the letter ə represent?
Definition
sofa
Term
What sound does the letter aw represent?
Definition
bout
Term
What type of airstream does the English language have?
Definition
Pulmonic egressive airstream mechanism.
Term
What do the terms consonants and vowels refer to in phonetics?
Definition
different types of sounds
(not letters)
Term
What is the manner of articulation?
Definition
the way the airstream is affected as it flows up out of the lungs. It may be blocked or partially blocked.
Term
What sounds are voiceless? Voiced?
Definition
p,t,k, and s.
Term
What are stops?
Definition
Sounds that are stopped completely in the oral cavity for a brief period.
Term
What are stops in phonetics?
Definition
nasal consonants
Term
What are continuants?
Definition
Sounds in which there is no stoppage in the oral tract.
Term
What are rounded vowels?
Definition
u, U, o and ɔ for boot, put, boat, and bore.
Term
What is a diphtong?
Definition
A diphthong is a sequence of two sounds, vowel + glide. Example: aj (bite) or aw in (bout) or ɔj for boy.
Term
What are the tense vowels?
Definition
i, e, u, o
Term
What are the lax vowels?
Definition
I, U, ɔ, and ɛ.
Term
What are obstruents?
Definition
the nonnasal stops, fricatives, and affricates form major class of sounds called obstruents.
Term
What are sonorants?
Definition
They are produced with relatively free airflow through either the mouth or nose. Nasal stops are sonorants because the air continues to resonate through the nose. Vowels, liquids, and glides are sonorants.
Term
What are consonantals?
Definition
A group of nasals, liquids, and obstruents.
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