Last/family name ____________ First name ________ ...............Points ___ / _38_
Match the best definition or example to the word on the left. Each side is separate!
| ___1. | fricatives | a | a vowel that changes quality inside a syllable (for example the sound [aw], in the word house) |
| ___2. | prescriptive grammar | b | the part of the mouth behind the upper teeth; the small "mountains" in the mouth behind the upper teeth |
| ___3. | tip | c | a Greek word that means "sound" |
| ___4. | nasal | d | making human speech sounds |
| ___5. | manners of articulation | e | the narrow front part of the tongue |
| ___6. | labiodental | f | for example: nasal, stop, fricative, and affricate |
| ___7. | dental | g | a sound made with two lips |
| ___8. | descriptive grammar | h | how people "should" speak and write; not what linguists study |
| ___9. | alveolar ridge | i | sounds made with a narrowing (some obstruction) or complete closure of the vocal tract |
| ___10. | consonants | j | describes sounds made with a lip and the teeth |
| ___11. | phone | k | the adjective for "teeth" |
| ___12. | larynx | l | language that native speakers really use, not what they "should" use |
| ___13. | diphthong | m | consonants that make a noise as air goes through a narrow opening: [f], [v], [s], [v], etc. |
| ___14. | bilabial | n | the study of word structure and word formation |
| ___15. | articulation
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o | a system for in which there is a symbol or sign for each human speech sound; each symbol is inside two brackets [ ] |
| ___16. | glottal | p | the adjective meaning "nose"; a sound made with air through the nose |
| ___17. | morphology | q | where the glottis and vocal cords are located |
| ___18. | International Phonetic Alphabet | r | the space in and behind the nose |
| ___19. | nasal cavity | s | describes sounds made with the tongue on or near the hard part at the top of a person's mouth |
| ___20. | palatals | t | describes sounds made with the glottis |
| ___21. | sonorous/sonorant | a | the mouth |
| ___22. | velum | b | the tube that goes from your lungs to your larynx |
| ___23. | phonology | c | linguist |
| ___24. | phonetics | d | the area between the uvula and the larynx |
| ___25. | places or points of articulation | e | the study of the sounds of human speech |
| ___26. | oral cavity | f | the study of how speech sounds pattern (go together) in language |
| ___27. | syntax | g | the lips, teeth, alveolar ridge, alveopalatal area, palate, velum, and glottis |
| ___28. | semantics | h | the subconscious knowledge a native speaker has of a language |
| ___29. | linguistic parity | i | folds inside the glottis that can be closed and opened to make voiced and voiceless sounds |
| ___30. | uvula | j | describes sounds made with the glottis partly closed; sounds made with the vocal cords vibrating |
| ___31. | linguistic competence | k | describes sounds made with the vocal cords/folds open/apart |
| ___32. | pharynx | l | sonorant, syllabic sounds made with the vocal tract more open than it is for consonants and glides |
| ___33. | trachea | m | the study of the meaning of words and sentences |
| ___34. | vowels | n | describes the louder sound that vowels, nasals, and liquids make; sounds that can be syllabic by themselves |
| ___35. | voiceless | o | the little thing that hangs down in the back of the oral cavity: you can see it if you open your mouth and say "aahhh" |
| ___36. | someone who studies human language |
p | the idea that no language or dialect is better or worse than another; all "grammars" are equal |
| ___37. | voiced | q | the soft part in the upper back of your mouth |
| ___38. | vocal cords | r | the study of sentence structure |