Across
- 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
- 5. any mark, shape, stroke, or sign added or attached to a letter for a particular reason, usually to alter pronunciation
- 7. the quality of a sound as high or low based on the rate of vocal fold vibrations
- 8. using pitch to highlight a part of a sentence or conversation
- 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
- 10. refers to the use of pitch to signal different words or features of grammar
Down
- 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. ________ tone is used when different tones signal different words altogether, just as different consonants or vowels do.
- 4. the standard system of Romanized (using the Roman alphabet) spelling for transliterating Chinese.
- 6. feature in languages where saying a consonant gives out a puff of air