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5 Cards in this Set
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Consonants
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Constriction of the vocal tract
• Traditional classification system (should know this) – Place – Manner – Voicing – B-W adds organ of articulation (e.g., lingua-alveolar) |
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Vowels
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Open vocal tract
• Classified by – Height (High, Mid, Low) – Tense/Lax (muscle tension and duration) – Front/Back (front, central, back) – Rounding |
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Phonemic Diphthong
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The meaning of a word would change if the offglide of the diphthong is eliminated.
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Syllable structure
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• Onset
• Nucleus (or Peak) • Coda • Nucleus/Peak can stand alone, but onsets and codas must be with a nucleus. • Syllable structure characteristics of a sample can help track phonological development |
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Allophonic variation
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Phonemes often have several phonetic realizations.
• These do not change the phoneme’s linguistic function. This variation is most typical in medial position. |
