Question

Answer some questions about reading a vowel diagram for the sound /i/ (“ee”), which is transcribed with the letter “i” (“eye”), for 10 points each.
[10e] The most common vowel diagram appears on the chart for this system of symbols that is widely used to transcribe sounds in linguistics.
ANSWER: IPA [or International Phonetic Alphabet]
[10m] On the IPA vowel chart, /i/ (“ee”) is on the left side of a pair of close front vowels because it does not have this feature. By contrast, the vowels /u/ (“oo”) and /o/ (“oh”) appear on the right side of a pair of vowels because they do have this feature.
ANSWER: roundedness [or rounded; accept rounding]
[10h] /i/ (“ee”) has the largest difference between the first and second of these frequency peaks of the human voice, which roughly map to the vowel chart’s horizontal and vertical axes. The first two of these peaks are denoted F1 and F2.
ANSWER: formants
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UNC C (UG)Maryland B (UG)1001020
Claremont AAppalachian State100010
Iowa ATexas A&M A0000
Iowa BMichigan State A0000
SorbonneRice A1010020
Texas ATexas A&M B1010020
UW AUBC A1010020
CedarvilleMichigan C0000
KenyonOhio State B0000
Michigan AMichigan B100010
EdinburghCambridge A010010
Durham AOxford A100010
Oxford CKCL1010020
Durham BKiel100010
BristolOxford B1010020
SheffieldCambridge C100010
WarwickImperial B100010
Cambridge BImperial A10101030
GeodesicGeorgia Tech A100010
Brandeis ABrown A100010
Brandeis BDartmouth B100010
Brandeis BDartmouth B100010
Tufts ATufts B10101030
Yale BHarvard B10101030
Brandeis BDartmouth B100010
Brandeis BDartmouth B100010
Brandeis BDartmouth B100010
Brandeis BDartmouth B100010
Brandeis BDartmouth B100010
Brandeis BDartmouth B100010
Harvard ATufts B100010