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1.	pop (stop)		Pressure of air behind a constriction, with a sudden release. Cause plosives.
2.	Human vs. Primate Language		HUMAN - Big vocab 10,000 to 100,000 - Open vocabulary. - Open reference to time/space. - Structured messages. PRIMATE - small vocab ~10 - Closed vocabulary. - Same across geography, normally refers to things NOW. - single items, no complexity. BOTH - identify speaker - express emotion
3.	hiss		A leaky escape of air. Causes fricatives.
4.	sonority		How resonant a sound is. Vowels are more sonorous, and are therefore in the middle of syllables. Plosives are least sonorous, and are beginning/end of syllables. Fricatives are middle of sonorous scale.
5.	syllable		A cycle of opening/closing the vocal tract. ONSET (the start of syllable) NUCLEUS (inside of syllable)
6.	laryngal buzz		Causes voiced/voiceless sounds. Oscillation of vocal cords in the larynx.
7.	phonemes		Little sounds/building blocks of sound (e.g. alphabet) that helps us put together sounds to form words.