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Allophones Flashcards

1
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What is Coarticulation

A

Phonetic variation of speech influenced by environment.

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2
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What do we call it when speaker allows articulatory properties to guide pronunciation?

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Articulatory efficiency

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3
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What is perceptual redundancy?

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When listener can predict sound before it happens. (after as well).

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4
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Nature and position of coarticulation is…

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Language dependent but not random

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5
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In coarticulation, more than one articulator is active? T or F

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True

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6
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What is aspiration?

A

Puff of air.

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7
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When do vocal folds vibrate with [th]

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After stop release

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8
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When do vocal folds vibrate with [t]

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At the same time as the stop release.

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9
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What is psychological, phonemes or allophones?

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Phonemes

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10
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What is constrative, phonemes or allophones?

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Phonemes

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11
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What is a surface representation and doesn’t affect meaning

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Allophone

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12
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What is predictable

A

Allophone

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13
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What is the underlying form? How is it represented.

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Phoneme. its the default and is //

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14
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What is broad transcription?

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Its phonemic and its what matter to the language

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15
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What is narrow transcription?

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Its phonetic. It includes segments that don’t matter to the language. Degree of narrow transcription varies (infinite details)

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16
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What is a Minimal pairs

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Pair of words that differ in only one segment

17
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What is contrastive distribution

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Allophones of different phonemes. Distribution is overlapping. difference cant be explained by environment

18
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What is complementary distribution

A

Allophones of same phonemes, distribution is non-overlapping, difference can be explained by environment

19
Q

What happens to vowels before a nasal stop

A

They have a nasalized allophone.

20
Q

How do we show in surface representation a nasalized sound

A

~

21
Q

What happens with nasalized vowels in French

A

They are phonemes

22
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aj is a phoneme. What are its allophones and when do they occur.

A

[ʌj] before a voiceless consonant and [aj] occurs elsewhere

23
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aw is a phoneme. What are its allophones and when do they occur.

A

[ʌw] occurs before a voiceless consonant and [aw] elsewhere.

24
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What is the surface form

A

Pronunciation. allophone

25
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The default, broadest allophone is represented as…

A

Elsewhere

26
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What is the underlying form. is it psychological?

A

Its psychological, phoneme, linked to one or more surface form

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