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17 Cards in this Set
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Phonemes in English
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14 vowels + 3 phonemic dipthongs
24 consonants |
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vowel
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a speech sound that is formed without a significant constriction of the oral and pharyngeal cavities, and serves as a syllable nucleus
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Consonant
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a speech sound produced by RESTRICTING or blocking the flow of air through the vocal tract.
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Sonorant consonants
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same sound source as vowels
less open than for vowels nasals liquid glide NLG w artic not enough for turb. |
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Obstruent consonants
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primary ss is pair of artic
may be 2nd ss stop, fric, af |
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like vowels, what kind of consonants have the strongest engery in lower freq?
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sonorant con.
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cognates
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2 consonants which are produced with the same place and manner of articulation, but differ in the presence or absence of voicing /t/ /d/
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Obstruents are produced
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produced with complete or partial obstruction of vocal tract SFA
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sonorants are produced
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with the oral or nasal air passages open
lGN |
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Nasals
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produ. w comp. obstruction of the oral cavity but an open velopharyngeal port, allowing sound to resonate in the nasal cavities
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glides
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j w that are similar to vowels except prod. with a cont. gliding movement form the inital vowel like positoin into the fowling vowel
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liquids
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term for 2 sounds in english L R air flows around the sies of the tounge or over the center of the tongue
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affricates
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comb sounds involiving a stop clousre followed by a fric segment
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fricatives
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prod. w a narrow constrictioning bewtween 2 articulators which air espaces with a cont noise.
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stops
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2 arts. are brough together to momentarily stop airflow.
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Three phases in Stop prod.
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stop
buildup release |
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types of release
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apsirated
unaspirated unreleased |
