Across
- 3. The degree of force used in producing a syllable in a word, or the emphasis in a sentence
- 4. The study of phonemes
- 5. the vocal tract is open
- 12. A sound that is produced with the vocal tract closed or partially closed, as opposed to
- 14. Modification of this area makes it possible for humans to produce sounds used for
- 15. The smallest perceptible segment of speech that, when combined with other phones, makes up an utterance
- 16. The branch of phonetics concerned with how physical speech sounds are perceived by the ear and the brain
- 17. Speech sounds produced with the resonance of the vocal chords
- 18. contains many symbols to represent sounds that the International Phonetic Alphabet does not. Mainly used by anthropologists and some linguists, and was popular before World War II
- 20. A subfield of phonetics concerned with the production of speech sounds by the vocal
- 21. A set symbols that can be consistently and unambiguously used to transcribe speech sounds, like the “letters” of a phonetic alphabet like the IPA or the American system
- 22. A system of symbols used to represent speech sounds in a language vowels Sounds produced with an open vocal tract, meaning that your breath channel is open and not blocked
Down
- 1. The detailed representation of speech sounds using the symbols of a phonetic alphabet
- 2. Refers to how different articulators are affected in the production of consonants
- 6. For example, the unaspirated p-sound in “span” and the aspirated p-sound in “pan” are two allophones of the phoneme /p/
- 7. Concerned with the physical aspect of sound produced by vocal organs, specifically the sound waves
- 8. Features of speech that are important for meaning-making, such as variations in pitch,stress,and intonation
- 9. Refers to the degree of highness or lowness of a tone
- 10. Speech sounds produced without the resonance of the vocal chords
- 11. The smallest meaningful unit of sound or a set of sounds in a language
- 13. Refers to stress, as in, the pronunciation of a syllable and how it is emphasized
- 15. Refers to the areas of the articulator where consonants are produced
- 19. The physical duration of a sound
- 21. The study of sound systems, or the sound system of a particular language