Allophones Flashcards
What is Coarticulation
Phonetic variation of speech influenced by environment.
What do we call it when speaker allows articulatory properties to guide pronunciation?
Articulatory efficiency
What is perceptual redundancy?
When listener can predict sound before it happens. (after as well).
Nature and position of coarticulation is…
Language dependent but not random
In coarticulation, more than one articulator is active? T or F
True
What is aspiration?
Puff of air.
When do vocal folds vibrate with [th]
After stop release
When do vocal folds vibrate with [t]
At the same time as the stop release.
What is psychological, phonemes or allophones?
Phonemes
What is constrative, phonemes or allophones?
Phonemes
What is a surface representation and doesn’t affect meaning
Allophone
What is predictable
Allophone
What is the underlying form? How is it represented.
Phoneme. its the default and is //
What is broad transcription?
Its phonemic and its what matter to the language
What is narrow transcription?
Its phonetic. It includes segments that don’t matter to the language. Degree of narrow transcription varies (infinite details)
What is a Minimal pairs
Pair of words that differ in only one segment
What is contrastive distribution
Allophones of different phonemes. Distribution is overlapping. difference cant be explained by environment
What is complementary distribution
Allophones of same phonemes, distribution is non-overlapping, difference can be explained by environment
What happens to vowels before a nasal stop
They have a nasalized allophone.
How do we show in surface representation a nasalized sound
~
What happens with nasalized vowels in French
They are phonemes
aj is a phoneme. What are its allophones and when do they occur.
[ʌj] before a voiceless consonant and [aj] occurs elsewhere
aw is a phoneme. What are its allophones and when do they occur.
[ʌw] occurs before a voiceless consonant and [aw] elsewhere.
What is the surface form
Pronunciation. allophone
The default, broadest allophone is represented as…
Elsewhere
What is the underlying form. is it psychological?
Its psychological, phoneme, linked to one or more surface form
