COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
CORRECT ANSWERS [CERTIFIED STUDY
GUIDE] GRADE A+ GET IT RIGHT
Articulation - (correct answer) Making sounds
Consonants - (correct answer) Sounds that obstruct
airflow/made with the obstruction of air flow in the vocal tract
Vowels - (correct answer) Sounds that don't obstruct airflow
Voiceless sounds - (correct answer) Spread apart (no
vibration)
Where are sounds made? - (correct answer) Vocal tract
(with body parts between the lungs, lips/nose)
Phonetics - (correct answer) How speech sounds are made
in the vocal tract
,Voiced sounds - (correct answer) Drawn together (vibration)
Place of articulation - Bilabial - (correct answer) Lips
ex) bike
Place of articulation - Labiodental - (correct answer) Upper
teeth and lower lip
ex) funny
Place of articulation - Dental - (correct answer) Tongue tip
and the upper front teeth
ex) thin
Place of articulation - Alveolar - (correct answer) Tongue tip
and the alveolar ridge
ex) do
Place of articulation - Palatal - (correct answer) Tongue body
with hard palate
ex) church
,Place of articulation - Velar - (correct answer) Back of
tongue with soft palate
ex) key
Place of articulation - Glottis (Glottal) - (correct answer) ex)
hand
Manner of articulation - stop - (correct answer) Completely
obstructed
Manner of articulation - Fricative, Affricates, Flap - (correct
answer) Mostly obstructed
Manner of articulation - Nasal, Liquid, Glide - (correct answer)
Detours
Stops - (correct answer) Also called plosives and completely
restrict airflow
Most common stops - (correct answer) Voiceless: [p], [t], [k]
Voiced: [b], [d], [g]
, Fricatives - (correct answer) Almost completely obstruct
airflow, but instead they leave enough of an opening for some
air to escape
ex) [s]
Affricates - (correct answer) Cause a brief stopping of the air
stream with an obstruent release which causes some friction
Two affricates in english) [tf] chapter & [d3] judge
Liquids - (correct answer) A consonant sound in which the
tongue produces a partial closure in the mouth, resulting in a
resonant, vowel-like consonant
Two liquids in english) [l] (laptop) & [r] (read)
Nasals - (correct answer) Sounds that have air leave the
vocal tract through the nose
Nasal stops) [m], [n], (ing)
The 3 parameters for describing consonants - (correct answer)
Voicing
Place of Articulation