Phonetics 2
Terms
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- phonetics
- the study of the production of speech sounds
- physiological phonetics
- study of the functions of speech organs during the process of speaking
- acoustic phonetics
- the differences in frequency, intensity, and duration of various consonants
- perceptual phonetics
- study of a listener's psychoacoustic response of speech sounds in terms of loudness, pitch, perceived length, and quality
- experimental phonetics
- lab study of physiologiccal, acoustic, and perceptual phonetics
- clinical phonetics
- study and transcription of aberrant speech behaviors
- phonology
- systematic organization of speech sounds in language
- diagraphs
- pairs of letters that represent one sound
- allographs
- different letter sequences or patterns that represent the same sound
- morphemes
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smallest unit of language with meaning
free - can stand alone
bound - must be attached to a word - phoneme
- symbol which represents one specific speech sound
- minimal pairs
- words that vary by only one phoneme
- allophones
- variant pronunciations of a particular phoneme
- diacritics
- specialized symbols that show dark /l/ or unreleased /p/
- phonemic transcription
- does not make an attempt to trasncribe allophonic variation - virgules are used
- rhotic diphthongs
- a speech sound consisting of the two elements - vowel + /r/
- diphthongs
- a single phoneme consisting of two vowel elements, the first termed the onglide and the second termed the offglide
- glottal
- referring to the glottis, a phoneme profuced with a constriction formed at the level of the vocal folds (/h/)
- sonority
- loudness of the individual speech sounds of a language
- onset
- consonants preceeding the vowel
- rhyme
- 2 parts - nucleus (vowel) and coda (consonant after a vowel)
- lingual flap
- represents allophonic production of t/d - rapid movement of the tongue tip against the alveolar ridge resulting in the creation of a very brief phoneme
- syllabics
- consonants that serve as the nucleus of the syllable - /l, m, n/