Ch 2-3 - Phonetics & Phonology Flashcards
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phonetics
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the branch of linguistics that examines the inventory and structure of the sounds of language
2
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phone
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aka speech sound; any sound used in human language
3
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speech sounds
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aka phone; any sound used in human language
4
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articulatory phonetics
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an approach to phonetics that studies the physiological mechanisms of speech production
5
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acoustic phonetics
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an approach to phonetics that is concerned w/ measuring and analyzing the physical properties of sound waves produced when we speak
6
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phonology
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the system of contrasts and patterns involving speech sounds
7
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phoneme
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a class of phonetically similar sounds that do not contrast w/ each other
8
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allophones
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the sounds that make up a phoneme
