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| Phonetic Transcription of Vowels |
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| Vowels are the most sonorant, or intense audible sounds in speech. Unlike the way consonants are described in phonetics, vowels are described using tongue height (hi-mid-low), tongue advancement (front-central-back), lip roundedness (rounded or unrounded), and tenseness (lax, or tense). |
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| Are complex vowels that involve two-part vowel sounds and transition one vowel to another vowel in the same syllable. |
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| When a feature distinguishes one phoneme from another phoneme it is known as having a distinctive feature. Phonemes are designated binary values known as having (-)minus or (+)plus to denote the features absence or presence. |
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| Describes how the manner of airstream is modified by the vocal tract in order to produce a sound. |
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| Stops are made by obstructing the flow of airstream completey in the oral cavity. |
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| Fricatives are produced by almost nearing the obstruction of airflow of the vocal tract. |
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| Affricates are made by briefly stopping the airstream completely and the releasing the articulators slightly to produce a friction noise; otherwise known as, creating a sequence of a stop followed by a fricative. |
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| Are made with a slight closure of the vocal tract, so that if it were open just the slightest, a vowel sound would be produced. |
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| Are produces by lowering the velum, so that the airstream is directed up the nasal cavity and out throught the nasal passage. |
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| A flap is similar to a stop, in that, it produces a complete obstruction of airflow, but in a manner that is much faster than that of a stop. |
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| Is the sequence of a vowel-/r/-consonant, or vowel-/r/-word boundary that are generally permitted in most English American dialects. Ex. In AAE, profession would be pronounced as p/u/fession (Non-rhotic), or |
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| A sound produced with airflow that passes through the sides of the lingua. |
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| Describes where, in the vocal tract, a constriction is made mostly by use of the tongue and other parts. |
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| Bi- meaning two and -labial meaning lips. This is used to produce sounds /b/, /w/, and /p/. |
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| Labial describes lips and velar is the soft part of the palate in the oral cavity. The sequence of terms may also be describing the diadokinetichs of therapy. The velar is used to produce sounds /g/ and /k/. |
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