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41 Cards in this Set
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speech |
a mode of language expression based on sounds emitted though the mouth and nose |
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speech community |
a group of people who live within the same geographic boundaries and use the same language |
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dialects |
different usage patterns w/in a language; speakers of one dialect may or may not easily understand speakers of another dialect of the same language |
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regional dialect |
a pattern of language usage that is shared by people living in a particular geographic region. A language may have several regional dialects |
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idiolect |
An individual or personal pattern of language usage. Every language user has an idiolect |
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sign language |
a system of communication that uses manual symbols, such as hand positions, postures, and movements to express language |
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morpheme |
the smallest unit of language that carries a semantic interpretation (meaning) |
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lexicon |
an inventory of the morphemes in a language |
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dictionary |
an inventory of the words in a language, usually together with their meaning |
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morphemes |
the study of morphemes; a subfield of linguistics |
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morphology |
that part of linguistics concerned with the study of morphemes, the meaning-bearing elements of a language |
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morphemic transcription |
a written account of the morphemic content of a language sample |
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phoneme |
a basic speech segment that has the linguistic function of distinguishing morphemes |
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graphemes |
a unit in the writing system of a language |
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minimal contrasts |
a sound segment distinction by which 2 morphemes or words differ in pronunciation. MCs are basic to the discovery of phonemes in a language |
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phonology |
the study of the structure and function of sounds in languages |
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articulatory phonetics |
branch of phonetics that deals with how sounds are formed aka physiological phonetics |
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acoustic phonetics |
branch of phonetics that deals with the acoustic properties of sounds; acoustics is a subfield of physics that deals with the generation and transmission of sound |
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allophone |
one of the sound variants within a phoneme class, often used in specified phonetic context |
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free variation |
a term used to describe allophones that may be exchanged for one another in a particular phonetic context |
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complementary distribution |
term used to describe two or more allophones of a particular phonetic phoneme that occur in mutually exclusive phonetic contexts |
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phonetic symbols |
symbols used to represent allophones or phonetic variants of phonemes, placed within brackets |
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diacritic marks |
special symbol used to modify a phonetic symbol to indicate a particular modification of sound production |
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digraphs
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a sequence of two or more alphabetic characters that represent a single sounds |
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morphs |
an individual morpheme-like shape in a language sample |
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phone |
a particular occurrence of a speech sound segment |
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alphabet |
a system of written symbols used to express a language |
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allographs |
any one alphabet letter of combination of letters that represents a particular phoneme. One phoneme may be represented (spelled) by several different allographs |
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initial |
the 1st position or segment in a word b in bat |
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medial |
middle position or segment in a word b in rubbber, rebut |
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final
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final position or segment in a word t in bat |
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releasing |
another name for syllable-initial sounds; they release (begin) the syllable |
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arresting |
another name for syllable-final sounds; the arrest (stop) the syllable |
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prevocalic |
notes that a sound occurs before a given vowel |
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postvocalic |
notes that a sound occurs after a given vowel |
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geminate |
sounds that occurs together as a pair 2 k's in bookkeeper 2 s sounds in gas supply |
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open |
a syllable that does not end in a consanant |
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closed |
a syllable that ends in a consonant |
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syllabary |
a phonetic writing system that uses symbols to represent syllables rather than individual sounds |
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coda |
the final margin of a syllable, consisting of one or more consonants |
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onset |
beginning of a syllable; may take the form of no consonant (null), or a cluster of two or more consonants |
