Question

When air is pushed out to produce speech sounds, the mechanism is called:

• A. Egressive
• B. Ingessive
• C. Vocalic
• D. Plosive

Answer 1

Answer:

A. Egressive

• In producing sounds, the air needs to be pushed out, so we are using an egressive air-stream mechanism for most of the speech sounds.

• All English sounds are produced using this mechanism and ingressive mechanism is not used for speech sounds.