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What is the study of the sound system of a lanuage called?
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Phonology
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What is the uniqueness of phonology?
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I enable the speaker to form meaningful utterances and enables the speaker to recognize sound from their langauge.
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What is a Allophone?
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A phoneme that is pronounced in different ways depending on its position in an utterance but still remains the same phoneme.
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What is a Allophone?
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Definition
An allophone is a phonetic variant of a phoneme in a particular language. Examples (English) [p] and [pH] are allophones of the phoneme /p/. [t] and [tH] are allophones of the phoneme /t/. |
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What is Aspiration?
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The puff of air that follows the pronunciation of certain sounds.
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What is Juncture?
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The type of connection or transition between phonemes (I scream, ice cream).
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What is Pitch?
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Height of speech sound due to the vibration frequency of the vocal cords.
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What is Register?
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The style of the lanaguage being used that ranges from colloquial to formal depending on the topic, situation, and the audience.
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What is Tone?
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A change in pitch that affects the meaning of the words. (Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai).
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What is Morphology?
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It is the study of the meaning units in a lanaguage. It is the the study of how words are built. Words can be broken down into smal segments that retain meaning (morphemes).
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