Discussion
In phonetics, vowel quality is better known as :
Answer: B
In phonetics, vowel quality is better known as timbre.
The quality of a vowel, what makes /i/ sound different from /a/ at the same pitch and loudness, is its timbre. It depends on the shape of the vocal tract, which resonates at particular frequencies called formants. The pattern of the first two or three formants (F1, F2, F3) is the acoustic correlate of vowel quality.
So formants are the physical basis of vowel quality rather than its name, harmonics are the multiples of the fundamental frequency produced by the vocal folds, and a syllable is a unit of speech organisation, not a property of sound.
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