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For my third phonetics exam!

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Any sound that can be produced by the human vocal tract?   Phonemes  
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A variant form of a phoneme?   Allophones  
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What are minimal pairs?   a pair of words that differ only in one sound  
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tongue, lips, teeth, jaw, soft palate, alveolar ridge, etc?   The articulators  
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the tongue, lower lips?   Active articulator  
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What are passive articulators?   Upper lip, upper teeth, alveolar ridge  
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What are vowels?   Produced by vocal tract that is more or less unobstructed. high, midlow, front  
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What are voiced sounds?   Produced with vibration of the vocal cords (folds). Don't do anything different.  
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What are voiceless sounds?   Produced without vibration of the vocal cords (folds). Ex: (s, z)  
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What are cognates?   A consonant sound that differs from another by voicing. Ex: (p,b) ALL PAIRS THAT ARE CIRCLED  
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What are palatal sounds?   The hard palate (roof and mouth) and tongue. Examples? ʃ, ʒ, tʃ, dʒ, r  
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What are velar sounds?   Soft palate (velum) and tongue. Examples: k, g, ŋ  
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What are glottal sounds?   The space between the band of the muscles. Ex: h  
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What are labial sounds?   Sounds that are produced by one or both lips.  
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What are bilabial sounds?   The lower and upper lips. Ex: (p, b), m, w  
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What are labiodental sounds?   The lower lips and upper teeth. Ex: (f,v)  
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What are interdental sounds?   Ex: (θ, ð)  
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What are alveolar sounds?   Alveolar ridge ( behind the upper teeth and tongue tip). Ex: (t, d), n, (s, z), l  
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What are obstruents?   Stops, fricatives, and affricates  
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What are sonorants?   Vowels, glides, liquids, nasals  
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What are stop (polsives)?   Produced with complete stoppage of airflow through the vocal tract. Ex: p, b, t, d, k, g  
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What are fricatives?   Partial blockage of the air stream causing turbulence or friction. Ex: f, v, θ, ð, s, z, ʃ, ʒ, h  
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What are affricates?   Begins with a stop, releases as a fricative. Ex: tʃ, d ʒ  
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What are stridents?   Produced by directing the airflow against a surface, considerable friction.  
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What are non-stridents?   Ex: θ, ð, h  
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What is rhotic?   Ex: r  
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What is tap/flap?   Short contact of articulation. Ex: water, letter, etc  
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What are nasals?   Resonance, the pathway to the nasal whatever. Ex: m, n, ŋ  
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What are approximants?   They are glides and liquids (w, j) (r, l)  
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What are glides?   Produced with a rapid transition usually following a vowel. Ex: w, j  
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/p/   voiceless, bilabial  
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/b/   voiced, bilabial  
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/t/   voiceless, alveolar  
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Glottal stop?   When the vocal folds stop the airflow. ? symbol. Is phonemic.  
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What is homorganic?   The sounds that are made with the same articulators although differing in one. Ex: p, b, m  
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/v/   voiced, labiodental  
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/θ/   voiceless, interdental  
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/ð/   voiced, interdental  
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Fricatives ARE...   largest set of consonants in American English.  
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/f/   voiced, labiodental  
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/ʒ/   voiced, palatal  
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/h/   voiceless, glottal  
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/s/   voiceless, alveolar  
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/z/   voiced, alveolar  
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/ʃ/   voiced, palatal  
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/n/   voiced alveolar  
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/ŋ/   velar  
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/m/   voiceless, bilabial  
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/j/   voiced, palatal  
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/w/   voiced, bilabial  
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What are semi-vowels?   glides (w, j) J is similar to high front vowel (i). w is similar to high back vowel (u). They are considered ONGLIDES  
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What are liquids?   l, r  
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Gliding examples?   yeyyo, wabbit.  
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