Sounds and Tone Review

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Across
  1. 3. consonants articulated with the back of the tongue against or near the back of the mouth, further back in the mouth than velar consonants
  2. 5. any mark, shape, stroke, or sign added or attached to a letter for a particular reason, usually to alter pronunciation
  3. 7. the quality of a sound as high or low based on the rate of vocal fold vibrations
  4. 8. using pitch to highlight a part of a sentence or conversation
  5. 9. type of vowel that is produced with a lowering of the velum so that the air flow escapes through the nose and the mouth
  6. 10. refers to the use of pitch to signal different words or features of grammar
Down
  1. 1. ____________ tone is used in some languages where features such as person or number of nouns, or tense or aspect of verbs, are indicated solely by different tones
  2. 2. ________ tone is used when different tones signal different words altogether, just as different consonants or vowels do.
  3. 4. the standard system of Romanized (using the Roman alphabet) spelling for transliterating Chinese.
  4. 6. feature in languages where saying a consonant gives out a puff of air