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16 Cards in this Set
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Phonetics |
The study of the properties needed to describe all the sounds in human languages |
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Acoustic phonetics |
Studies the physical properties of speech sounds; the study of the sound wave that carries information about speech |
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Articulatory phonetics |
Studies the production of speech sounds; the object of study is how we articulate a sound (where we place our tongues, our teeth in relation to our lips, etc.) |
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Three major features of consonant production |
1. Are the vocal folds vibrating (voicing) 2. Where is the flow of air constricted? (place of articulation) 3. How is the flow of air constricted? (manner of articulation) |
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Voicing |
Whether the vocal folds are vibrating as soon as air is released or following a delay
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Place of articulation |
Where in the mouth the primary constriction (narrowest part) occurs |
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Manner of articulation |
How the airstream is modified by the vocal tract |
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International phonetic alphabet (IPA) |
A system in which there is a one-to-one correspondence between each sound in language and each phonetic symbol |
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We describe vowel articulation by...
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-How high the tongue is -How far forward or backward the tongue is -Whether the lips are rounded -The tension used in producing the sound |
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Tone languages |
Some languages (not English) use pitch of a sound to signal a phonemic contrast |
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Phonology |
The study of the structure and systematic patterning of sounds in human language; study of how speech sounds form patterns |
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Phonemes |
Contrastive phonological segments whose phonetic realizations are predictable by rule; the basic form of a sound as sensed mentally rather than spoken or heard |
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Allophones |
Predictable phonetic realizations of a phoneme |
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Minimal pairs |
Two words that are identical except for one phoneme occurring in the same place in the string of phonemes; the difference in the sound causes the two strings to contrast in meaning |
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Distinctive feature |
A phonetic property of a phoneme that accounts for its ability to contrast word meanings |
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Nondistinctive feature |
Don't change what word is perceived; predictable by rule |
