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10 Cards in this Set
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Characteristics of voiced sounds |
vocal cords are together and the air streampassing through them causes them to vibrate: b, d, g, z |
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Characteristics of voiceless sounds |
vocal cords are apart and they do not obstruct the air stream: p, t, k, and s
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Consonants
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sounds in which the air stream from the lungs is obstructed to some degree in the oral cavity or the vocal folds in the larynx
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Vowels |
Air stream is not impeded Highly resonant All voiced Easy to hear Easier to distinguish than consonants Made by changing the shape of the mouth |
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Tense vowels |
vowels produced with a relatively greater tension. (long vowels)
Beep, Brood, Bake and Boat |
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Lax Vowels |
vowels produced with less movement and less tension. (short vowels)
Bit, Blood, Put, Brought, and Father |
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Diphthongs
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two vowel sounds produced with one gliding into the other. They are tense.
Toy Buy now bait goat Buoy |
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Nasal Sounds |
produced when the velum is lowered and air escapes through the nose and mouth: n, m
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Morphology |
The study of how words are formed |
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Morpheme |
Minimal meaningful element—cannot be analyzed into simpler form. |
