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vowel & diphtong voc
clinical phonetics
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is a vowel | a speech sound thatis formed without a significant constriction of the oral and pharyngeal cavities and serves as a syllable nucleus |
| What is a monophthongs | A pure vowel having a single unchanging sound quality. |
| What is a diphthong | a vowel like sound that serves as a syllable nucleus and involves a gradual transition from one vowel articulation (on glide) to another (off glide) |
| front vowel | a vowel produced with the positioned tongue near the front of the mouth. high front are /i/ as in he low front are /ae/ hat |
| high vowel | a vowel produced with the tongue in a high (superior) position. /i/ (he) /u/ who |
| lax vowel | a vowel that is relative short in duration is assumed to have reduced muscular tension. |
| low vowel | a vowel produced with the tongue in a low (inferior) position. /a/ hot /ae/ hat |
| back vowel | a vowel produced with the tongue positioned toward the back of the month. /u/ (who) /a/ ha |
| central vowel (point) | a vowel produced with the tongue positioned in the center of the mouth exp first vowel in upon |
| derhotacization | partial loss or coloring from a normally rhotacized vowel (er sound) |
| monophtongization | alteration of a diphthong to a pure vowel , loss of the dynamic phonetic quality of a diphthong |
| nasalized vowel | a vowel produced with a nasal resonances usually because of a n open velopharynx |
| onglide | the initial vowel or vocal tract shape of a diphthong |
| offglide | the terminal vowel or vocal tract shape of a diphthong |
| r colored | a sound that carries the phonetic quality of /r/, the rotic consonant |
| reduction of a vowel | generally, a shorting or unstressed of a vowel, which may be accompanied a change in vowel quality ,usually in the direction of centralization |
| retroflex | literally a turned back: this term is used to denote sounds that carry r coloring or comes to have it because of contextual influences, such as the words bird and futher. |
| rhotacization | a property or process related to r coloring. In phonetics, vocalic r refers to the phenomenon of a rhotic segment such as [r] or [ɹ] occurring as the syllable nucleus. |
| tense vowel | a vowel that is relatively long in duration and is assumed to be produced relative tense or active musculature the vocal tract |
| tongue advancement | the vowel feature or dimension per taining to the position of the tongue body along the anterior-posterior aspect. advancement implies anterior or frontal positioning. |
| tongue placement | the vowel feature or dimension pertaining to the position of the tongue body along the superior-inferior aspect |
| vowel quadrilateral | a four-sided figure have the corner vowels and its vertices. A diagram show in the position of the tongue for the vowel articulation |
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