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48 Cards in this Set
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r
Languages? |
voiced alveolar tril
Spanish |
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ʀ
Languages? |
voiced uvular trill
French and German |
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χ
Languages? |
unvoiced uvular fricative
Moroccan Arabic |
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ʁ
Languages? |
voiced uvular fricative
Approximate form in French Moroccan Arabic |
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ħ
Languages? |
unvoiced pharyngeal fricative
(darth vader) Moroccan Arabic |
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ʕ
Languages? |
voiced pharyngeal fricative
Moroccan Arabic |
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h
Languages? |
unvoiced glottal fricative
Moroccan Arabic |
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ǀ
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dental click
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!
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Post-alveolar click
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ǂ
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palatoalveolar click
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ǁ
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Alveolar lateral click
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ʍ
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voiceless labial-velar fricative
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w
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voiced labial-velar approximant
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ʜ
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voiceless epiglottal fricative
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ʢ
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Voiced epiglottal fricative
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ɕ ʑ
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alveolo-palatal fricative
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In which languages are nasalized vowels separate phonemes?
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French, Navajo, Hindi
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g
Languages |
voiced velar plosive
Ewe |
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ɰ
Languages |
voiced velar approximant
Spanish |
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What language features voiceless vowels in between sibilants
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Japanese
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ɥ
Language? |
voiced labial-palatal approximant
French |
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Which languages have dorsal fricatives?
ʁ χ |
German and Tlingit
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c
Languages? |
unvoiced palatal plosive
Hungarian and Czech |
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β
Language? |
voiced bilabial fricative
Spanish |
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ʙ
Languages |
voiced bilabial trill
Kele |
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ɣ
Languages |
voiced velar fricative
Spanish |
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ʡ
Languages? |
epiglottal plosive
Amis |
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k
Languages?` |
voiceless velar plosive
Ewe |
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Which language has contrastive voiced and voiceless nasals?
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Burmese
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Which language allows word-initial velar nasals?
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Thai
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Which language has a very large number of contrastive nasals?
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Malayalan
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Which languages have glottal plosives as common phonemes?
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Arabic, Hawaiian, and Navajo
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What are the passive articulators?
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alveolar ridge
hard palate teeth velum/soft palate lips uvula pharyngal wall |
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What are the active articulators?
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Lips (bottom especially)
tounge (tip, blade, front, dorsal, root, epiglottis) Glottis larynx |
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q
Languages? |
unvoiced uvular plosive
Bagwalal and Egyptian Arabic |
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How are ejectives made?
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Glottis is closed
pharyngeal-velar port is closed larynx is raised |
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ɟ
Languages? |
voiced palatal plosive
Hungarian and Czech |
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How are egallic implosives made?
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Vocal folds approximated
Velar raised Transglottal air-flow results in voicing larynx lowered |
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Describe a plosive
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Complete closure of two articulators
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Describe a nasal
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A complete stoppage of the
oral cavity so that the airstream passes only through the nose. |
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Describe a tap
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An articulation in which one
articulator, usually the tongue tip, is drawn back and then allowed to strike against another articulator in returning to its rest position. |
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Describe an affricate
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A stop followed by a homorganic
fricative. |
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Describe a fricative
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Narrowing of the distance
between two articulators so that the airstream is partially obstructed and a turbulent airflow is produced, as in English [ z ] in zoo. |
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Describe an Approximant
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An articulation in which one
articulator is close to another but without the tract being narrowed to such an extent that a turbulent airstream is produced. In many forms of English, / j, l, r, w / are approximants. |
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What are some identifying features of Hindi?
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Short vowels and long vowels
long and short consonats liquids voicing and aspiration are phonemic |
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Which languages has vowel length contrast?
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Danish
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Which language has vowel length contrast in initial position?
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Maylay
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Low vowels tend to be ________ &______ than short vowels?
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Longer
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