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16 Cards in this Set
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Phonetics
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The study of the speech sounds of a language
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Phoneme
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A speech sound that is meaningful in a language
A speech sound that is capable of differentiating morphemes |
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Grapheme
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A letter or letter combination that spells a single phoneme
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Allograph
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Different letters or letter combinations that represent the same sound
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International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
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An alphabet designed to represent the sounds of words, not their spellings, created to promote a universal method of phonetic transcription
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Phone
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Articulatory realization of a speech sound, without reference to a language
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Morpheme
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The smallest unit of language capable of carrying meaning
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Minimal pair
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A pair of words that vary by only one phoneme
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Allophone
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Variant production of a phoneme
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Broad transcription
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Phonemic transcription of an individual, used when the rules of a language are known; allophones are not recorded
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Narrow transcription
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Allphonic transcription of an individual, used when the rules of the language are known
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Citation form
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The pronunciation of a word as a single, isolated item
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Connected speech
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An utterance consisting of two or more continuous words
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Co-articulation
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An articulatory process whereby individual phonemes overlap one another due to timing constraints and ease of production
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Complementary distribution
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Refers to allophonic production that is tied to a particular phonetic environment
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Free distribution
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Refers to allophone production that is not tied to a particular phonetic environment
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