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7 Cards in this Set
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The acoustic signal
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Produced by air that is pushed up from the lungs through the vocal cords into the vocal tract.
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Vowels
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Produced by the vibration of the vocal cords & changes in the shape of the open vocal tract by moving the Articulators.
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Consonants
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Produced by a constriction of the vocal tract.
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Formants
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Changes in the resonant frequencies & produce peaks in pressure at a number of frequencies.
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Phoneme
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The smallest unit of speech that changes meaning in a word.
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In English, there are how many phonemes?
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- 37. 13 major vowels, 24 major consonants.
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Other sources say there are how many phonemes?
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42
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