Exam 1: Introduction to the Study of Speech Sound Disorders

Allophones are variations of how phonemes are produced.

What kind of airflow is necessary for speech production?

Name four primary articulators.

A bilabial place of articulation suggests that which articulators are involved:

Define and describe the three primary acoustic features of speech.

Suprasegmentals greatly affect the meaning of a message.

People often unknowingly change their rate of speech depending on the context and audience.

Discuss the differences between consonants and vowels.

Compare and contrast the various classification systems that can be used to describe phonemes.

The primary articulators are the tongue, lips, jaw and:

Vowels are voiced nonnasal speech sounds.

The smallest units of language that have meaning are:

What is the difference between fricatives and affricates?

Diphthongs are a combination of:

Discuss how coarticulation affects speech production. How is this clinically useful to SLPs working with children who have a speech sound disorder?

Lingua-alveolar sounds are produced by the constriction of the tongue blade at the hard palate.

The phoneme /f/ is a fricative.

A child, Sam, enters your clinic room. The first sentence he says to you is "Tam like tunny dayd", which his mother translates for you as "Sam likes sunny days"). Based on this short speech sample, which sound class does Sam have trouble with?

Coarticulation has no contribution in a clinical context.

What is the difference between anticipatory coarticulation and retentive coarticulation? Provide an example of each.