WGU D676 Phonetics Exam 2026/2027 – Comprehensive Practice Questions & Verified Answers

WGU D676 Phonetics Exam
2026/2027 –
Comprehensive Practice
Questions & Verified
Answers




harmonics - ANSWER-an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency of voiced sounds



spectrogram - ANSWER--plot of intensity and frequency

, -vowels: horizontal lines



formants - ANSWER--particular frequency in speech wave

-vocal tract resonances



vowel reduction - ANSWER--happens in connected speech

-vowels changes to schwa



F1 - ANSWER--related to the vertical configuration of the vocal tract

-inversely related to tongue height



F2 - ANSWER--related to the horizontal configuration of the vocal tract

-directly related to tongue fronting



lip rounding rule - ANSWER-all formants are lowered by lip rounding



main vowels in spectrogram - ANSWER--/i/: big F1 and F2 gap

-/ɪ/: less but still gap between F1 and F2

-/ɛ/: almost no gap between F1 and F2

-/æ/: all formants even, equal fuzzy look and shade

-/a/: F1 and F2 close and above, F3 high up

-/ɔ/: f1 and F2 on top each other, F3 closer to them

-/ʊ/: F1 and F2 not as close as /u/, F3 higher up, pretty fuzzy

-/u/: F1 and F2 close on bottom,F3 not far up, all light and fuzzy



language family - ANSWER--stress time

-syllable time

-tone language