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Letter correct answers An arbitrary written or printed symbol or character representing a speech sound Phonetics correct answers The study of speech-sound production and the special symbols that represent speech sounds International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) correct answers Specially devised signs and symbols designed to represent the individual speech sounds of all languages Dipthong correct answers A combination of two vowels in which one vowel glides continuously into the second vowel Allophone correct answers Slight variation in the way different people produce individual phonemes that can be affected by the initial, middle, or final position of a word, or what sounds precede or follow an individual phoneme Distinctive Feature correct answers The smallest individual differences required to differentiate one phoneme from another in a language Voice correct answers The distinctive feature that refers to a sound produced either with the vocal folds vibrating (voiced) or not vibration (voicing) Cognate correct answers Two sounds that differ only in voicing (e.g. /b/ and /p/ Place correct answers The location in the mouth where two articulators come together (make contact or near contact to constrict the air) to produce specific sounds; places may include the lips, teeth, alveolar, ridge, tongue, and hard and soft palates Manner correct answers The way in which the air stream is modified as a result of the interaction of the articulators; direction of airflow (oral or nasal sounds), or the degree of narrowing of the vocal tract by the articulators in the various places Fricative correct answers A sound formed by forcing the air stream through a narrow opening between articulators (tongue-teeth); lips; tongue-alveolar ridge, and tongue-hard palate Sibilant correct answers A fricative sound whose production is accompanied by a "hissing" sound Bilabial correct answers Referring to the two lips or bilabial sounds /p/ and /b/ Stop correct answers A sound made by building up air pressure in the mouth and then suddenly releasing it; the airflow can be blocked momentarily by pressing the lips together or by pressing the tongue against either the gums or the soft palate (/p/, /t/, /k/, /d/, /g/, /b/)