21⟩ What is glottal?
a glottal sound is one that you make in speaking when you partly or completely stop air as it passes through the throat
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22⟩ What is fricative?
a speech sound that is made by pushing air out through a small space between your teeth and your tongue or lips, or between your tongue and palate (=the inside upper part of your mouth). ‘F’, ‘z’, and ‘th’ are fricatives.
23⟩ What is nasal noun?
a speech sound such as ‘m’ or ‘n’ that is produced mainly through your nose
24⟩ What is alveolar?
a consonant sound such as ‘l’, ‘d’, ‘n’, or ‘t’, made with the tongue touching the skin behind your top front teeth
25⟩ What is open vowel noun?
a vowel that you pronounce with your tongue on the bottom of your mouth
26⟩ What is retroflex adjective?
pronounced with the end of your tongue bent backwards
27⟩ What is stress mark noun?
a mark that shows which part of a word is pronounced with most emphasis
28⟩ What is vowel noun?
linguistics a sound that you make when you speak without closing your mouth or throat
29⟩ What is affricate?
A sound used in speech that is like the ‘ch’ sound in ‘church’ or the ‘j’ sound in ‘judge’
30⟩ What is front?
linguistics a front vowel is made in the front part of your mouth
31⟩ What is long adjective?
linguistics a long vowel is a vowel that is pronounced for a longer time than most other vowels
32⟩ What is phonic adjective?
linguistics relating to the sounds used in speech, or to the study of these sounds
33⟩ What is assonance?
the repeating of sounds in words that are close together, especially in poetry, for example ‘I tried to light the fire’
34⟩ What is stress verb?
linguistics to pronounce a particular word or syllable (=part of a word) more loudly or with greater force than other words or syllables
35⟩ What is weak adjective?
linguistics a weak word, or a weak part of a word, is not emphasized when you say the word
36⟩ What is voiceless adjective?
voiceless sounds are produced without passing air over your vocal cords
37⟩ What is tone noun?
linguistics the degree to which the sound of a word or part of a word is high or low
38⟩ What is sibilant adjective?
formal making a sound like the letters ‘s’ or ‘sh’
39⟩ Tell me what is glottal stop?
a sound made by stopping air as it passes through your throat. In some varieties of spoken English a glottal stop is often used instead of a ‘t’ sound in the middle or at the end of a word.
40⟩ What is stressed adjective?
linguistics a stressed word or syllable (=part of a word) is pronounced more loudly or with greater force than other words or syllables
