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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