25 vocabulary words

Question 1

phonology

Answer 1

a study of abstract categories that organize the sound system of a language.

Question 2

spectogram

Answer 2

graphic representation of frequency distribution of sound waves that give the hearing an impression of speech sounds.

Question 3

phone

Answer 3

physical realization of speech sound whether its voiced or voiceless alveolar approximant.

Question 4

allophones

Answer 4

phones which function as alternate realizations of the same phoneme.

Question 5

narrow transcription

Answer 5

additional articulatory details in transcription

Question 6

distribution

Answer 6

different positions in which a speech sound can occur or cannot occur in the words of a language.

Question 7

complementary distribution

Answer 7

two sounds which are distributed in such way that can only occur where the other cannot occur.

Question 8

phoneme

Answer 8

minimal distinctive unit in the sound system of the language.

Question 9

minimal pair

Answer 9

pair of words which differ in only one sound, but differing in meaning.

Question 10

free variation

Answer 10

speakers can choose which allophone they use.

Question 11

neutralization

Answer 11

contrast between phonemes becomes invisible.

Question 12

final devoicing

Answer 12

voiced phoneme has a voiceless allophone in word-final position is known in the literature.

Question 13

stop phonemes

Answer 13

sound that completely blocking the flow of air and releasing it also know as plosive.

Question 14

aspiration

Answer 14

the process of aspirating stops. “puff of air’ produced.

Question 15

aspirated stop

Answer 15

a stop that is produced with an extra breath of air.

Question 16

non-rhotic

Answer 16

sound varieties such as as r-sounds that do not seem to occur in word-final position.

Question 17

constituents

Answer 17

elements that make up a syllable

Question 18

nucleus

Answer 18

slot for a vowel

Question 19

onset

Answer 19

slot for consonants

Question 20

coda

Answer 20

postvocalic slot

Question 21

syllabification

Answer 21

assigning syllabe structure to words

Question 22

sonority

Answer 22

technical term for the category that captures our acoustic impression of ‘clear audibility.’

Question 23

cognates

Answer 23

words that correspond to phonologically similar and etymologically related German words.

Question 24

sonority sequencing principle

Answer 24

sounds preceding the nucleus must rise in sonority and sounds following the nucleus must fall in sonority.

Question 25

vowel epenthesis

Answer 25

insertion of vowels into syllables.