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14 Cards in this Set
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What is an up side to the fact that English often doesn't change the spelling or pronunciation to match English when it borrows words from other languages?
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We can trace the roots of words' historical origins better.
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What sound is not represented by a letter in the following words?
futile, cute, utility. |
/j/
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What kind of phonetics do we focus on?
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Articulatory
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Pulmonic egressive air stream
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We push air out of our lungs to speak.
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What 3 things do we look at for consonants?
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1. Place of Articulation
2. Manner of Articulation 3. Voicing |
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What's the difference between vowels and consonants?
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Consonants involve obstruction of the airstream, vowels do not.
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What are the 7 Places of Articulation?
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1. Bilabial
2. Labiodental 3. Interdental 4. Alveolar 5. Palatal 6. Velar 7.Glottal |
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What are the 6 Manners of Articulation?
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1. Stops
2. Fricatives 3. Africates 4. Nasals 5. Liquids 6. Semivowels (aka glides) |
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How do ventriloquists make you think you're hearing bilabials, without moving their lips together?
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They change the manner of articulation (ex. f (voiceless labiodental fricative) replaced with a voiceless interdental fricative.)
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Tongue Thrusting Phenomenon
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aka, "lisp;" when people move the tongue to the next place of articulation to make the voiceless alveolar fricatives to a voiceless interdental fricative.
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T/F: All vowels are voiced.
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True.
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What vowel commonly occurs in an unstressed syllable?
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Schwa.
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Which vowels are unrounded?
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All Front Vowels
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Which vowels are rounded?
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All back vowels, except /a/.
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