Cuestionario sobre Fonética Articulatoria

What does Articulatory Phonetics mainly focus on?

• How sounds are written

• How sounds are produced using the speech organs

• How sounds are heard and interpreted

• The meaning of words

True or false: All vowels are voiced sounds?

• True

• false

The pitch of a sound is determined by the __________.

• Volume

• Duration

• Vibration rate of the vocal cords

• Size of the oral cavity

Which of the following pairs correctly matches a place of articulation with an example sound?

• Bilabial – [t]

• Alveolar – [k]

• Velar – [k]

• Glottal – [b]

True or false: Plosives are created by the partial closure of the vocal tract?

What sound is an example of an affricate?

• [s]

• [ʧ]

• [n]

• [l]

A sound produced by sucking air is called a consonant ________.

• Egressive

• Pulmonic

• Ingressive

• Voiceless

What is a distinctive characteristic of approximants?

• Complete closure in the vocal tract

• Frictionless adjustment of the airflow

• Ingressive airflow

• Nasalized airflow

What term refers to the intensity of a sound in speech?

• Intensity

• Frequency

• Tone

• Duration

Vowels are typically described using:

• Manner and place of articulation

• Duration and intensity

• Position of the tongue and the lip

• Graphs of spectrograms only